Rudder (software)

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Rudder

Screenshot of Rudder 4.0 Dashboard
Original author(s)	Normation
Developer(s)	Normation
Initial release	October 31, 2011; 13 years ago (2011-10-31)
Repository	github.com/Normation/rudder
Written in	Scala (server), Rust (server) and C (agent)
Operating system	Unix-like, Microsoft Windows, Android
Type	Configuration management, system administration, network management, cloud management, continuous delivery, DevOps
License	GNU General Public License
Website	www.rudder.io

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,^[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]

• 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

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]

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

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