RUDDER Review

Rudder checks every rule that has been set up to keep it compliant over time. It is a tool made to be used in production. It's not a dev tool where there is no continuity constraint.

There is 3 ways to use Rudder. The biggest surprise is that everything that can be done with code is also possible with the web interface, without knowing anything about development or automation, generally speaking.

The agent has nearly no impact concerning resources and that is the reason why Rudder is able to manage thousands of servers without any performance issues.

Non-expert users can define parameters in a central interface, and Rudder will automatically make sure that IT services are installed, configured, running and in good health. All actions (checks, warnings, fixed errors…) are reported upon immediately in the user interface, keeping drift from nominal behaviour low.

Apart the agent on proprietary OS (AIX, Windows, ...) , Rudder is an open source and free software. This means that the code source is available on Github for every part of Rudder (Rudder webapp, and every other Normation repository). This also means that packages for a wide range of distributions are released and available to download freely.

Rudder can manage quite everything. So far only HP-UX and iOS don't have their own agent version, but everything else is available already.