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[[what-is-rudder]]
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=== What is Rudder?
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image::./images/big-rudder-logo.png[Rudder logo]
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image::./images/big-rudder-logo.png["Rudder logo", align="center"]
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Rudder is an easy to use, web-driven, role-based solution for IT Infrastructure
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Automation and Compliance. With a focus on continuously checking configurations
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from small to biggest-in-their-field. Typical deployments manage 100s to 1000s of nodes.
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The biggest known deployment in 2017 is about 7000 nodes.
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image::./images/dashboard-overview.png[Rudder dashboard]
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image::./images/dashboard-overview.png["Rudder dashboard", align="center"]
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==== Made for production environments
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incoming problem, continously checking conformity to their rules, and all of that
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whatever the infrastructure they choose to build.
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image::./images/introduction/build_run_devops.png[Modern IT production of services and Open Source automation tools stack]
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image::./images/introduction/build_run_devops.png["Modern IT production of services and Open Source automation tools stack", align="center"]
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To achieve these goals, Rudder goes beyond simple automation of commands or
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configurations. Rudder continuously maintains your infrastructure to keep it
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Rudder comes with a graphical interface, a standard library of configuration
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policy ready to use, and a graphical rule editor.
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image::./images/introduction/web_api_cli.png[Use what best feets your need: Web interface, API, or console]
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image::./images/introduction/web_api_cli.png["Use what best feets your need: Web interface, API, or console", align="center"]
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Developers can script Rudder throught its APIs and security teams can check
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conformity level to their policies or inventory (both software and hardware) of a
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of OS or hardware, from physical server to cloud instance, user laptops or even
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Digital Cities and IoT objects.
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image::./images/introduction/agent_output.png[Versatile agent]
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image::./images/introduction/agent_output.png["Versatile agent", align="center"]
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Fixes #10693: Make a nice agent output screenshot for the intro