Name: [CfgMgmtCamp 2019] What is RUDDER and when should I use it?
Uploaded: 2019-03-18T09:29:42.000Z
Duration: 22 min 15 s
Description: What is RUDDER and when should I use it?

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Users of Rudder have found that the software effectively addresses a range of key business problems related to IT infrastructure management. One such problem is the need to manage unstructured data and improve data governance. With Rudder, users are able to streamline their IT infrastructure management processes, allowing for better organization and cataloging of data assets. This enhances the ability to discover and utilize information across the organization, ultimately improving data governance practices.

Another critical business challenge that Rudder helps solve is the management and automation of hybrid IT infrastructure. Users have reported that Rudder provides an easy and sophisticated way to manage both physical and virtual servers, making it easier to oversee a large number of long-running instances. This increased efficiency in managing hybrid IT infrastructure empowers organizations to effectively meet their operational needs.

In addition, Rudder plays a crucial role in ensuring security and configuration compliance. Users have found that the software provides the necessary tools for managing and enforcing compliance with system rules, safeguarding against potential vulnerabilities or unauthorized access.

Furthermore, the reporting capabilities offered by Rudder greatly contribute to effective infrastructure management and compliance assurance. Users rely on these reporting features to gain insights into their infrastructure's status, identify any non-compliant areas, and take appropriate actions to maintain compliance.

Overall, Rudder proves valuable in solving critical business challenges related to data governance, hybrid IT infrastructure management, security compliance, and reporting. Its intuitive tools and features empower organizations to efficiently manage their infrastructure while enhancing data governance practices and ensuring compliance with industry standards.

Efficient Time Optimization: Several reviewers have found Rudder to be an efficient tool for optimizing and managing time on IT infrastructure tasks. They appreciate how it helps streamline complex processes, allowing them to oversee and automate tasks with ease.

Intuitive User Interface: Users have praised Rudder for its clear and intuitive user interface. This makes it easy for them to navigate the platform and oversee complex IT processes. The intuitive design also contributes to a positive user experience.

Comprehensive Data Governance: Rudder has been commended for its comprehensive data governance features. Reviewers appreciate how these features improve data accuracy and streamline data collection. With Rudder, users can easily manage and govern their data, ensuring compliance with regulations and industry standards.

Steep Learning Curve: Several users have found that Rudder has a steep learning curve, making it challenging for them to adapt quickly. 

Limited Reporting and Analytics Capabilities: The lack of extensive reporting and analytics capabilities in Rudder has been mentioned by multiple users as a drawback. This limitation hinders the software's ability to provide deeper insights.

Lack of Customization Options for User Roles and Permissions: Some users have expressed disappointment with the limited customization options available for user roles and permissions in Rudder. They suggest that more flexibility is needed in this area.

Paris based development team Normation offers and supports the Rudder continuous configuration solution, combining configuration management and continuous auditing in a single platform .

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RUDDER is an open source Continuous Configuration tool, which is a combination of IT infrastructure configuration management and continuous auditing. It focuses on critical production needs like ensuring a continuous reliability, enabling secured changes best practices, having visibility on infrastructure actual state, and providing an easy-to-use centralized hub to manage every device (embedded included) and operating system configurations.

00:00 Outline
00:59 Part 1 - Main Features
11:39 Part 2 - Continous Reliability Demo
14:07 Part 3 - RUDDER in the Real World

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A few things that make RUDDER stand out: 

- A simple framework allows you to extend the built-in rules to implement specific low-level configuration patterns, however complex they may be, using simple building blocks (“ensure package installed in version X,” “ensure file content,” “ensure line in file,” etc.). A graphical builder lowers the technical level required to use this.

- Each policy can be independently set to be automatically checked or enforced on a policy or host level. In Enforce mode, each remediation action is recorded, showing the value of these invisible fixes.

- RUDDER works on almost every kind of device, so you’ll be managing physical and virtual servers in the data center, cloud instances, and embedded IoT devices in the same way.

- RUDDER is designed for critical environments where a security breach can mean more than a blip in the sales stats. Built-in features include change requests, audit logs, and strong authentication.

- RUDDER relies on an agent that needs to be installed on all hosts to audit. The agent is very lightweight (10 to 20 MB of RAM at peak) and blazingly fast (it’s written in C and takes less than 10 seconds to verify 100 rules). Installation is self-contained, via a single package, and can auto-update to limit agent management burden.

- RUDDER is a true and professional open source solution—the team behind RUDDER doesn’t believe in the dual-speed licensing approach that makes you reinstall everything and promotes open source as little more than a “demo version.”

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RUDDER is an established project with several 10000s of node managed, in companies from small to biggest-in-their-field. Typical deployments manage 100s to 1000s of nodes. The biggest known deployment in 2017 is about 9000 nodes.

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Try the online demo: https://www.normation.com/en/get-started/online-demo/
Ask the team for a personalized demo: https://www.normation.com/en/ask-for-a-demo/
Download RUDDER: http://www.normation.com/en/rudder/download-rudder/
Read documentation: https://www.rudder-project.org/doc/
Ask anything to the team: https://www.normation.com/en/contact/

[CfgMgmtCamp 2019] What is RUDDER and when should I use it?

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Rudder is an open source configuration management tool that includes continuous auditing (with or without remediation), compliance info and graphs and the possibility to configure everything in the UI and/or APIs. 
It has been around for more than six years and has users large (think 10 000 nodes) and small around the world. 

Let’s take a moment to look at the vision that lead us here, how Rudder is different from similar tools, and what users find invaluable, nice (or annoying - I’ll be honest!). 
If you’re not familiar with Rudder this is a great talk to attend to get the basics covered.

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