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Rudder | |
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Original author(s) | Normation |
Developer(s) | Normation |
Initial release | October 31, 2011 |
Repository | github |
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 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]
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] .
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: