Add Rudder to Configuration Management

[ben-ranford]

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Please take some time to answer the following questions as best you can:

• Why is it awesome?

Rudder is, in effect, a pretty CFEngine frontend, and has the ability to interact with the systems it manages on a pull-based system, rather than a push (Though you can push, if you so desire). It's awesome because it scales easily, is extremely reliable (in my experience) and very easily extensible with your own directives, groups, rules and script packages.

• Have you used it? For how long?

Yes, for around 6 years.

• Is this in a personal or professional setup?

Both, I've had it in my lab managing 20+ Linux systems for years, but have also implemented it at scale with multiple relays in a 500+ endpoint environment.

• How many devices/users/services/... do you manage with it?

Personally? 23 currently.

• Biggest pros/cons compared to other solutions?

Honestly? Ease of use if you're coming from an RMM with agent procedures like Kaseya. Reporting is a piece of cake with the really well documented API, and the agents are extremely reliable being based on CFEngine.

Biggest con is that the server is a bit of a resource hog on larger installations.

• Any other comments about your use case, things you've found excellent, limitations you've encountered... ?

Only limitation I can think of is that the automated patch management and compliance modules that have prebuilt scripts for CIS, ISO27k etc have a price tag. This does not mean you can't just build them yourself, though.

[ben-ranford]

can i get a quick n dirty review? :)

[nodiscc]

Also mentioned at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open-source_configuration_management_software