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[[!meta title="cdist - usable configuration management"]]
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the KISS principle and is being used in small up to enterprise grade
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environments.
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cdist is an alternative to other configuration management systems like
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[cfengine](http://www.cfengine.org/),
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[bcfg2](http://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/bcfg2),
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[chef](http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/)
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and [puppet](http://www.puppetlabs.com/).
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* Browse the **documentation** for the [latest version](man/latest) or [all versions (>= 2.0.4)](man)
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* Read how to [[install or update cdist|install-update]]
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### OS support
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cdist was tested or is know to run on at least
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* [Archlinux](http://www.archlinux.org/)
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* [Debian](http://www.debian.org/)
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* [CentOS](http://www.centos.org/)
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* [Fedora](http://fedoraproject.org/)
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* [Gentoo](http://www.gentoo.org/)
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* [Mac OS X](http://www.apple.com/macosx/)
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* [OpenBSD](http://www.openbsd.org)
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* [Redhat](http://www.redhat.com/)
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* [Ubuntu](http://www.ubuntu.com/)
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* [XenServer](http://www.citrix.com/xenserver/)
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## Support
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### IRC
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You can join the development ***IRC channel***
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[#cstar on irc.freenode.net](irc://irc.freenode.org/#cstar).
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### Mailing list
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Bug reports, questions, patches, etc. should be send to the
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[cdist mailing list](http://l.schottelius.org/mailman/listinfo/cdist).
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### Linkedin
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If you have an account
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at [Linked in](http://www.linkedin.com/),
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you can join the
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[cdist group](http://www.linkedin.com/groups/cdist-configuration-management-3952797).
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### Commercial support
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You can request commercial support for cdist from
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[my company](http://firma.schottelius.org/english/).
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## Used by
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If you're using cdist, feel free to send a report to the mailing list.
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Interesting information are for instance
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* Which services do you manage?
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* How many machines do you manage?
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* What are the pros/cons you see in cdist?
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* General comments/critics
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### Nico Schottelius, Systems Group ETH Zurich, local.ch and privately
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Yes, I'm actually eating my own dogfood and currently managing
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* [plone](http://plone.org/) (cms)
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* [moinmoin](http://moinmo.in/) (wiki)
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* [apache](http://httpd.apache.org/) (webserver)
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* [kerberos (mit)](http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/) (authentication)
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* [nss-pam-ldapd](http://arthurdejong.org/nss-pam-ldapd/) (authentication)
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* [ircd-hybrid](http://www.ircd-hybrid.org/) (chat)
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* [stunnel](http://stunnel.mirt.net/) (SSL tunnel)
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* [mercurial-server](http://www.lshift.net/mercurial-server.html) (version control)
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* [xfce](http://www.xfce.org/) (lightweight desktop environment)
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* [slim](http://slim.berlios.de/) (graphical login manager for X11)
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with cdist on more than **60** production machines of the
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[Systems Group](http://www.systems.ethz.ch) at the
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[ETH Zurich](http://www.ethz.ch) as well at home.
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### Steven Armstrong, CBRG ETH Zurich
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The CBRG is managing most of their compute clusters with cdist.
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[[!tag cdist unix]]
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