Rudder Reviews

Rudder provides a very intuitive user interface with comprehensive data governance features. It adds emphasis on collaboration and integration with existing tools along with scalable performance

The lack of extensive reporting and analytics capabilities hinder its use for deeper insights along with limited customization options for user roles and permissions

Rudder has been instrumental in solving critical business challenges related to data governance from my perspective. It has helped my organization effectively manage unstructured data by providing intuitive tools to organize and catalog our data assets. This has dramatically enhanced our ability to discover and utilize information across the company.

Improved data accuracy, streamlined data collection, and leveraging data for deep analytics & data science.

Certification and training courses for teams does not happen throughout the year - resulting in delayed onboardings.

Rudder provides an easy and sophisticated way to manage and automate IT hybrid infrastructure.

Me disminuye y organiza el tiempo en la infraestructura de TI, cuando estoy gestionando todo los procesos que tenga que ver con la empresa.

Se necesita mayor amplitud en el sistema para abarcar mayor seguridad y gestión en las empresas que lo utilizan.

Alta disponibiilidad en la infraestructura brindada por el sistema.

With Rudder we are able to maintain a global overview of critical infrastructure and reassure our customers that we are in control constantly.

So far the only thing i "dislike" and it's a minor in comparison to the time we save, is the configuration editor would love a more visual editor with a flow like interface. Think node red as an example.

We are able to ensure systems are up to date, installed with correct security agents, we are instantly aware of threats and compliance violations and above all thanks to the amazing rest

Rudder is very easy to install and setup with a basic configuration set.

The Audit mode is a killer feature, and thanks to the clean webgui you have a clear dashboard to know what you have to fix.

API is also usefull if you want to automate some tasks and plug it to another tool (like Ansible to perform some tasks).

Moreover, the agent node has a very light footprint on the nodes.

I can use Rudder to break the communication barriers I normally have to deal with in IT.

Normally, there's "the technical stuff" and "the stuff management needs". Both are distractions from each other and fixing one doesn't solve the other at all.

With Rudder I can easily show non-admins what's working, what we need to do, and they can digest that information to a complete understanding. Project managers, bosses and beginners can understand what's happening.

There are many reasons to choose Rudder for implementing an excellent quality of services. First of all, for creating and dynamically updating groups of machines based on their inventory. Thus, we can create a node group of a certain distribution, containing some packages in a certain ip range for example. On these dynamic groups, it is possible to create a directive composed of a series of generic methods (creation of a directory, modification of a line, rebooting of a service etc.). For example, about thirty of these small bricks (generic methods) have allowed us to transform our installation and maintenance procedures of our internal wiki into rules in Rudder. The intuitive interface allows us to quickly see the quality of our compliance with our rules across our entire IT. Changes to these rules always require a multi-person workflow process to be validated and deployed in production.

At the ergonomics level, we sometimes get lost between certain notions of general methods, directives, techniques and rules. The concept of rule is powerful because different directives can be applied for certain groups and not for others. And another rule may also contain some of these directives associated with other groups. But in use for more practice we often make a rule for a directive. So it's a lot of clicks for a single directive in a single rule.

Our managed services is now dedicated to creating value through the creation of configuration rules and security policy. This expertise can then be easily deployed throughout the entire IT. An update of our policy or an optimization of a service is then quickly implemented throughout our entire IT. Rudder also allows us to respond to 0day alerts to patch and/or modify system configurations until we have the editor patches available. Rudder also gives us the opportunity to show our clients the work done by the compliance reports of all the rules applied on their system.

Rudder has by far the lowest learning curve across configuration management tools on the market. Once the server side is deployed, installing and pluging in agents is a breeze.

Where other tools force you to learn fancy implemented DSL, brand new functionnal languages or specific YAML syntaxes, Rudder let's you create your management rules in a very graphical way that your whole team will be able to adapt to very quickly and easily.

At ITsense we strongly support open source project and Rudder has always been a tool with tremendous potential. First of all, Rudder is very easy to instal an deploy; the user interface is cleverly designed and they provide a full documentation to help you get started (we do apreciate that they have translated it).

In addition we appreciate the codeless user interface with build-in template library.

At last, Rudder can manage quite everything (only HP-UX and iOS don't have their own agent version), everything else is available already.

So few people in the community. Even though it's growing, it's hard for Rudder to compete against giants ( such as Puppet for instance). Also it can be difficult to use before understanding how it works.

.One platform for automatiion, patching orchestrating complex flows

Not free, there are several open sources but again this is a complete suit

Orchestrating hybrid infrastructure