Rudder 3.0 comes with a lot of improvement and new features : - Redesigned web interafec - Improved status reporting - Overview dashboard added - Performance improvement - New OS support - Even a technique editor added - And more!

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Rudder 3.0
Rudder 3.0
A major step forward

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Rudder 3.0: Redesigned web interface
Redesigned web interface
✔ Avoid wasted space
✔ One click access to all screens
✔ Familiar Bootstrap menu bar
✔ Improved user experience
✔ Refresh data in all tables

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Before
After

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Wasted space
Wastedspace
Wastedspace
Useful content
Pre-3.0

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Useful content
Now in 3.0

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One click access to all pages
Pre 3.0: double menu
First click
Second click
Now in 3.0: one menu

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Improved user experience
Pre 3.0: tabbed Directive page
Now in 3.0: one menu

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As of 3.0: single page, improved layout
Always available
Save button

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As of 3.0: single page, improved layout

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Rudder 3.0: Status reporting
Status reporting
✔ Display an overview of all states for a Rule
✔ Proportional to number of nodes
✔ Proportional to number of configurations
✔ Drilldown by node or by component
✔ Display recent changes (repairs) over time
✔ List recent changes (repairs)

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Rudder 3.0: Status reporting
Status reporting
Error
Unexpected
No response
Applying...
Success
Not
applicable
(eg SSH on
Windows)
Multi-colour progress bar displayed for each
rule and as a global overview

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Status reporting
Recent changesCompliance

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Overview + drilldown
Exhaustive
Focus on what is relevant

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History of changes on nodes
Keep an eye on what changed

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Overview: dashboard

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Reporting: behind the scenes
Two compliance modes
Full compliance
Changes only
Varies logs sent from nodes to server:
Explicit “success” message vs silence means OK + regular heartbeat
10:00 ComponentA Success
10:00 ComponentB Repaired
10:05 ComponentA Success
10:05 ComponentB Success
10:10 ComponentA Success
10:10 ComponentB Success
→ Saves a lot of bandwidth (syslog messages) + storage (DB)
10:00 ComponentB Repaired
10:10 Heartbeat I'm alive!
vs

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Rudder 3.0: Technique editor
Create your own Techniques via a web interface
Technique editor

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Builds on the ncf framework and available methods
Technique editor
Example of a method
>60generic methods as of today

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Rudder 3.0: Node classification data
Insert external data to classify nodes on key=value pairs
Node classification data
1. Set key=value pairs for any nodes via the REST API
See REST API documentation on
http://www.rudder-project.org/rudder-api-doc/
Can be used to
integrate with any
third party CMDB,
inventory/asset
database, ...

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Rudder 3.0: Node classification data
Insert external data to classify nodes on key=value pairs
Node classification data
1. Set key=value pairs for any nodes via the REST API
2. View, search and group in the web interface

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Rudder 3.0: CLI
Wrapper for common commands
Command line interface
# rudder agent
Usage: rudder agent help
rudder agent <command> [parameters ...]
Run commands on agent.
Available commands:
disable forbid rudder-agent to be run by cron or service
enable re-enable a disabled rudder-agent
inventory force the agent to create and send a new inventory
reinit re-initialise the agent to make it be seen as a new
reset reset agent status and cache
run force run agent promises
update update promises on agent
version get the agent version

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Wrapper for common commands
Command line interface
# rudder server debug <node_IP>
# Starts a temporary cf-serverd process on a different port
# and uses a firewall rule to redirect traffic from that node
# to the temporary server, running in verbose mode

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Collect and centralise usage statistics to help development
Usage statistics (opt-in, anonymous)
"audit_log_enabled": "true",
"reportscleaner_frequency": "daily",
"os_name": "Debian",
"uuid": "9480df7a-249c-4972-9593-648a60f769a1",
"report_line_count": "16427",
"expected_report_count": "118",
"nodes_count": "3",
"parameter_count": "1",
"report_db_size": "8272 kB",
"rule_count": "10",
"reportscleaner_archive_ttl": "3",
"os_version": "7.4",
"installation_date": "2015-01-30 08:56:58.982185054 +0000",
"db_size": "16 MB",
"package_version": "rudder-server-root 3.0.0-wheezy0",
"report_count_last_day": "156",
"directive_count": "14",
"reportscleaner_delete_ttl": "90",
"agent_run_interval": "5",
"rudder_workflow_enabled": "false”
Sample statistics

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What's new in Rudder 3.0
Performance improvement
Much faster interface
Super fast compliance
Tested with 5000+ nodes
Example: List nodes page for 2000 nodes
Rudder 2.11: 2 seconds
Rudder 3.0: 80 ms
Various other changes
Package (deb/rpm) for relay servers
{yum,apt-get} install rudder-server-relay
systemd support
ncf methods
Rudder Techniques
New OS support
RHEL/CentOS 7
Debian 8
Run frequency by node
Set run frequency from
5 minutes to 6 hours
on a global schedule
+ override by node