Developer(s) Inedo License Proprietary | Stable release 1.4.4 / 2016 Website inedo.com/otter | |
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Operating system Type Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code | ||
Otter is an infrastructure automation tool, designed by the software company Inedo. Built specifically to support Windows, Otter utilizes Infrastructure as Code to model infrastructure and configuration.
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Otter is installed on premises and is sold and marketed using a “low-touch, indirect model with simple, public pricing that suits most customer needs”.
Key Areas
Otter focuses on two key areas:
Key features
Otter has a visual, web-based user interface that is designed to "create complex configurations and orchestrations using the intuitive, drag-and-drop editor, and then switch to-and-from code/text mode as needed." Otter aims to enable DevOps practices through its UI, and shows the configuration state of an organization's servers infrastructure (local, virtual, cloud-built). Otter has first-class Windows support and supports Linux-based operating systems through SSH based agents. Otter supports both agent and agent-less windows servers.
PowerShell
A key feature is Otter is the Windows PowerShell integration. As a tool designed with "first-class" Windows support, this feature allows users to leverage their existing scripts and scripts built by the Windows PowerShell community.