Puppet Bolt vs Rex: What are the differences?

Puppet Bolt: An open source orchestration tool that automates the manual work it takes to maintain your infrastructure. It is an open source orchestration tool that automates the manual work it takes to maintain your infrastructure. Use it to automate tasks that you perform on an as-needed basis or as part of a greater orchestration workflow; Rex: the friendly automation framework. Rex is an automation framework that combines Perl and Secure Shell (SSH) for a portable and highly flexible approach to data center infrastructure management and software deployment.

Puppet Bolt and Rex can be primarily classified as "Server Configuration and Automation" tools.

Some of the features offered by Puppet Bolt are:

• Prebuilt tasks
• Automate deployments
• Open source

On the other hand, Rex provides the following key features:

• Puts you in charge: Rex acknowledges that there is more than one way to manage it. It trusts you to be in the best position to decide what to automate and how, allowing you to build the automation tool your situation requires.
• Easy to get on board: automate what you are doing today, and add more tomorrow. Rex is instantly usable, making it ideal and friendly for incremental automation.
• It's just Perl: Perl is a battle-tested, mature language. Whenever you reach the limitations of the built-in Rex features, a powerful programming language and module ecosystem is directly available at your fingertips to seamlessly extend it even in other languages. So after all, it's not just Perl.

Puppet Bolt and Rex are both open source tools. Rex with 620 GitHub stars and 204 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Puppet Bolt with 320 GitHub stars and 147 GitHub forks.