cdist
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cdist is a free software configuration management tool for Unix-like systems. It manages nodes over SSH using the Bourne Shell, and does not require any additional software to be installed on target nodes.
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Quick Facts Original author(s), Initial release ...
Original author(s) | Nico Schottelius, Steven Armstrong[1] |
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Initial release | 2010; 14 years ago (2010) |
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Written in | Python, Bourne shell |
Operating system | Linux, Unix-like, macOS[3] |
Type | Software configuration management |
License | GNU General Public License version 3 or later |
Website | www |
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Cdist differentiates itself from competing configuration management systems by choosing the Bourne Shell as the primary language for writing configuration scripts and requiring effectively no dependencies on target nodes. Although cdist's core is written in Python, an interpreter is only required on the host machine, not target nodes.