Rudder (software)
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| Original author(s) | Normation |
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| Developer(s) | Normation |
| Initial release | October 31, 2011 |
| Repository | github |
| Written in | Scala (server), Rust (server) and C (agent) |
| Operating system | Unix-like, Microsoft Windows, Android |
| Type | Configuration management, system administration, network management, cloud management, continuous delivery, DevOps |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | www |
Rudder is an open source audit and configuration management utility to help automate system configuration across large IT infrastructures. Rudder relies on a lightweight local agent installed on each managed machine.
Rudder is produced by Normation,[1] founded in 2010. Its server-side web interface is written in Scala and its local agent is written in C, and are published as free software under the GNU General Public License 3.0.[2]
Features
[edit]- Host inventory
- Feature-complete Web interface
- Standardized, reusable policies
- Custom Policy editor
- Central reporting and historic information for policy applied to hosts
- Grouping based on search queries run against inventory
- Automatic updating of such groups (dynamic groups)
- Dynamic generation of per-host policies (lessens risk of data leaks from shared policy)
- Change Request / Validation
- REST API
- Git backend
History
[edit]Rudder was created by the founding team of Normation and first released as free software in October 2011.[3]
Rudder 3.0 was released in February 2015.[4]
Platform support
[edit]The following operating systems are supported as a Root server:
- Debian Linux 9 and 10
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, 18.04 LTS and 20.04 LTS
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) / CentOS 7 and 8
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12 et 15
The following operating systems are supported for Rudder Nodes and packages are available for these platforms:
- Debian Linux 5 to 10
- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS to 20.04 LTS
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) / CentOS 3 to 8
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10 to 15
- IBM AIX 5 to 7
- Slackware 14
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008R2 or higher
See also
[edit]
- CFEngine
- Ansible (software)
- Bcfg2
- Chef (software)
- Puppet (software)
- Salt (software)
- Comparison of open source configuration management software
- DevOps
- Otter (software)
References
[edit]- ^ "Rudder FAQ". Rudder. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
- ^ "Rudder FAQ". Retrieved 12 June 2015.
- ^ "Rudder 2.3 release notes". Rudder. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
- ^ "Rudder 3.0 release notes". Rudder. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
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