Rudder (software)
| Original author(s) | Normation |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Normation |
| Initial release | January 1, 2009 |
| Stable release | 2.10.6[1] / October 6, 2014 |
| Development status | Active |
| Written in | Scala |
| Operating system | GNU/Linux, Unix, MS Windows, BSD, Mac OS X |
| Type | Configuration management, System administration, Network management, Cloud management, Continuous delivery, DevOps |
| License | GNU Affero Public License |
| Website |
www |
Rudder is an audit and configuration management tool for large IT infrastructures, written in Scala (programming language), that works on top of CFEngine. It is published under the GNU Affero Public License 3.0.
Features
- Host inventory
- Feature-complete Web interface
- Standardized, reusable policies
- custom Policy editor
- Grouping based on search queries run against that inventory.
- Automatic updating of such groups
- API
- Change Request / Validation
- Central reporting and historic information for hosts
- Git backend
- Dynamic generation of per-host policies (lessens risk of data leaks)
History
Rudder is an Open Source addition to CFEngine 3 and is closely related to the Community Edition of CFEngine. The CFEngine Company has a commercial version of the product, CFEngine Enterprise.
CFEngine released version 3.6 June 18, 2014. Normations release for CFEngine 3.6 is Rudder 2.11
CFEngine History
- 1993 cfengine
- 2001 cfengine 2
- Promise Theory
- 2009 CFEngine 3
- Rudder
- 2014 CFEngine 3.6
Platform support
The following operating systems are supported as a Root server:
- Debian GNU/Linux 5 (Lenny)
- Debian GNU/Linux 6 (Squeeze)
- Debian GNU/Linux 7 (Wheezy)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) / CentOS 6
- SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 SP1
- Ubuntu server 12.04 LTS (Precise)
- Ubuntu server 12.10 (Quantal)
The following operating systems are supported for Rudder Nodes and packages are available for these platforms:
- Debian GNU/Linux 5 (Lenny)
- Debian GNU/Linux 6 (Squeeze)
- Debian GNU/Linux 7 (Wheezy)
- Microsoft Windows Server 2000
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) / CentOS 3
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) / CentOS 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) / CentOS 6
- SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10 SP3
- SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 SP1
- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (lucid)
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (precise)
- Ubuntu 12.10 (quantal)
See also
- Comparison of open source configuration management software
- DevOps
References
- ↑ "Release:". 6 October 2014.