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