Rudder (software)

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Rudder
Original author(s) Normation
Developer(s) Normation
Initial releaseOctober 31, 2011;13 years ago (2011-10-31)
Repository github.com/Normation/rudder
Written in Scala (server), Rust (server) and C (agent)
Operating system Linux, Microsoft Windows
Type Configuration management, system administration, network management, cloud management, continuous delivery, DevOps
License GNU General Public License and Apache
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.

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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

History

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]

Latest major version, Rudder 8.0, has been released in November 2023 [5] , and Rudder 8.3 has been released in April 2025 [6] .

Platform support

The following operating systems are supported for the central Rudder server:

The following operating systems are supported for Rudder Nodes and packages are available for these platforms:

See also

References

  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.
  5. Lhommelet, Camille (2023-11-06). "Rudder 8.0 is out, discover our new major branch". Rudder. Retrieved 2025-08-25.
  6. Saadé, Lisa (2025-04-29). "Rudder 8.3 for continuous vulnerability management". Rudder. Retrieved 2025-08-25.