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Rudder (software)

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
Original author(s)Normation
Developer(s)Normation
Initial releaseOctober 31, 2011; 12 years ago (2011-10-31)
Repositorygithub.com/Normation/rudder
Written inScala (server), Rust (server) and C (agent)
Operating systemUnix-like, Microsoft Windows, Android
TypeConfiguration management, system administration, network management, cloud management, continuous delivery, DevOps
LicenseGNU General Public License
Websitewww.rudder.io

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

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  • 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

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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

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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

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References

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  1. ^ "Rudder FAQ". Rudder. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
  2. ^ "Rudder FAQ". Retrieved 12 June 2015.
  3. ^ "Rudder 2.3 release notes". Rudder. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
  4. ^ "Rudder 3.0 release notes". Rudder. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
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