Bcfg2 – Construct Complex Change Management and Deployment Strategies
Bcfg2
Bcfg2 is a configuration management system. It helps system administrators deploy complex changes across large numbers of systems in a coherent and transparent fashion.
Bcfg2 produces a consistent, reproducible, and verifiable description of their environment, and offers visualization and reporting tools to aid in day-to-day administrative tasks.
The software is based on a client / server architecture. The client is responsible for interpreting (but not processing) the configuration served by the server, and uses almost no client side processing. It renders a declarative configuration specification, provided by the Bcfg2 server, into a set of configuration operations which will, if executed, attempt to change the client’s state into that described by the configuration specification.
The Bcfg2 server is responsible for taking a network description and turning it into a series of configuration specifications for particular clients. It also manages probed data and tracks statistics for clients.
Features include:
- Manages complete system configuration
- Metadata based client configurations
- Change detection
- Improved server performance
- 2 way configuration verification
- Sparse configuration installation
- Probes
- Dry-run mode
- Profiles
- Configuration specifications are designed to be reusable
- Machine functionality can be easily duplicated for testing or
upgrades - Changes are made in a single location
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 |  | Bcfg2 also runs on AIX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, OpenSolaris, and Solaris. The software runs on a wide range of Linux distributions. Homepage: bcfg2.org Developer: Narayan Desai and contributors License: GNU GPL v3 Written in: Python |
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