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Rudder (software)

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Original author(s)
  
Normation

Development status
  
Active

Developer(s)
  
Normation

Rudder (software)

Initial release
  
October 31, 2011; 5 years ago (2011-10-31)

Stable release
  
4.0.2 / December 20, 2016; 2 months ago (2016-12-20)

Written in
  
Scala (server) and C (agent)

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 (derived from CFEngine 3).

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Rudder is produced by Normation, 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.

Features

  • 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

    Rudder was created by the founding team of Normation and first released as free software in October 2011.

    Rudder 3.0 was released in February 2015.

    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)
  • Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) / CentOS 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) / CentOS 7
  • SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 SP1
  • Ubuntu server 12.04 LTS (precise)
  • Ubuntu server 14.04 LTS (trusty

    • 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)
  • Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie)
  • Fedora 18
  • IBM AIX 5.3
  • IBM AIX 6.1
  • IBM AIX 7.1
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2000
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2012
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) / CentOS 3
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) / CentOS 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) / CentOS 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) / CentOS 7
  • 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)
  • Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (precise)

    • References

    Rudder (software) Wikipedia
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