What is the best distribution of Asterisk to take?

Question

Asterisk

I use Asterisk 1.8 :)) for which I wrote a puppet module 6 years ago.
I would like to upgrade to the latest versions of Asterisk, but there is no time to write full configuration on pappet.
Please advise a distribution kit with a web interface that would allow you to flexibly change dialplans directly, in text form, and as less monstrous as possible (ideally, so that the web interface would store its settings in text files, and in general be KISS as much as possible)
From non-standard I want to:
1) receive SMS from Multifon
2) two separate entry points with completely different routing (although this may not be a problem, but when I wrote the configuration on puppet, it complicated it a little that you can’t use the default context)

Answer 1

freepbx?

Answer 2

Judging by the description of the main tasks, FreePBX should be enough. Better to try and decide for yourself.
Personally, I only set up bare Asterisks, use realtime, built-in LUA and do not disdain editing configs / databases by hand. There is no trust in any GUI. The devil only knows what they will do in the configs

Answer 3

nothing will be more flexible than vanilla.
Only worse IMHO.
If you need some kind of dynamics, it's easier to write your own scripts and / or interface so that it generates the configs you need automatically.