Itamae vs Pallet: What are the differences?

What is Itamae? Simple and lightweight configuration management tool. Configuration management tool inspired by Chef, but simpler and lightweight.

What is Pallet? Automates controlling and provisioning cloud server instances. DevOps for the JVM. The machines being managed require no special dependencies to be installed. As long as they have bash and ssh running, they can be used with pallet. Pallet has no central server to set up and maintain - it simply runs on demand. You can run it from anywhere, even over a remote REPL connection.

Itamae and Pallet can be primarily classified as "Server Configuration and Automation" tools.

Pallet is an open source tool with 793 GitHub stars and 123 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Pallet's open source repository on GitHub.