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, 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 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
CFEngine
Ansible (software) Bcfg2 Chef (software) Puppet (software) Salt (software) Comparison of open source configuration management software DevOps Otter (software)