Bcfg2
Bcfg2 helps system administrators produce a consistent, reproducible, and verifiable description of their environment, and offers visualization and reporting tools to aid in day-to-day administrative tasks. It is based on an operational model in which the specification can be used to validate and optionally change the state of clients, but in a feature unique to bcfg2 the client's response to the specification can also be used to assess the completeness of the specification. Using this feature, bcfg2 provides an objective measure of how good a job an administrator has done in specifying the configuration of client systems. Bcfg2 is therefore built to help administrators construct an accurate, comprehensive specification. Bcfg2 has been designed from the ground up to support gentle reconciliation between the specification and current client states. It is designed to gracefully cope with manual system modifications. Bcfg2 can also enable the construction of complex change management and deployment strategies.
| Tags | Configuration Management System Administration Installation/Setup |
|---|---|
| Licenses | BSD License |
| Operating Systems | Linux AIX BSD Solaris OpenSolaris Mac OS X |
| Implementation | Python |
Recent releases
- 29 Jan 2012 01:59
Release Notes: This is primarily a bugfix release, with over two dozen reported bugs and dozens more unreported bugs fixed. The only significant change from 1.2.0 is that regular expression support in Rules is now optional, and off by default.
- 15 Dec 2011 11:51
Release Notes: Packages support for pulp, an updated Web frontend for reports, a new bcfg2-reports package, support for TGenshi/TCheetah in Cfg, a SSLCA plugin for automated SSL certificate generation, Pacman support for Archlinux, new bcfg2-admin modes, a documentation overhaul, a bcfg2-repo-validate rewrite, basic systemd support, probe support for automated handling of JSON, XML, and YAML output, bcfg2-reports enhancements/fixes, a packages plugin rewrite, support for VCS specification/checkout, new SSHbase features, and support for APK packages.
- 15 Nov 2011 10:58
Release Notes: A remote command execution security problem was fixed.
- 22 Jun 2011 20:50
Release Notes: Probes make Bcfg2 automatically handle JSON, XML, and YAML output. Tons of Validate plugin fixes. Make -q turns off package verification. Yum is the preferred client tool on RPM systems. This release fixes 'important' entry installation in decision mode, bcfg2-reports. The default encoding has been set to UTF-8. Traceback is caught when name resolution fails. Base is deprecated in favor of Bundler. Only listens on the specified interface by default. A normalization error has been clarified. The output encoding of Genshi templates and the bcfg2-admin pull behavior for Genshi templates have been fixed.
- 02 Jun 2011 13:20
Release Notes: This is a bugfix release that primarily addresses issues with newer versions of Python. Comments are no longer stripped from clients.xml. Trapped exceptions are no longer raised from XMLRPCRequestHandler. Error checking was added to ensure the gpg-pubkeys has all needed information, and handling of gpg-pubkey packages was fixed. The xmlrpclib Transport class was fixed along with bcfg2-reports --badentry and --extraentry. Support for the verify attribute was added. Supervised services are now tracked properly. Global package coalescing was fixed. Server strings that don't start with https:// are now handled.
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