We are very proud to announce the availability of a brand new version of Rudder, 2.4.0~beta3.

This is the first official release in the 2.4 series, code-named Drakkar. This beta version has been a long time in the making, and I’d like to apologize to those who have been waiting for it. Your wait has not been in vain however, as this version comes fully tested and loaded with new features!

Changes

It is impossible to list every change here (check out the Redmine roadmap for that), but here is an overview of the major changes:

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After a hard couple of days trying to get it done with our friends from Genymobile, we finally managed to craft a lovely Android compatible Rudder prototype !

Thanks to CFEngine flexibility, we are now able to manage Android-based systems from a standard Rudder server.

Thus, we are currently the only user-friendly oriented configuration management tool able to manage Android-based appliances, and we are looking forward to extend this basic support to a full-fledged one using Rudder’s Technique library.

Stay tuned !

P.S.: “Android 2.4 Ice Cream Sandwich” means “Android ICS running on a Rudder 2.4 agent”, Android 2.4 does obviously not exist.

The Normation team (well at least two of them) was present at the LOADays 2012 in Antwerp, Belgium

We had a great time here! Even though the weather was cold, our Belgian friends out here were very welcoming. The organization was perfect, the WiFi too, and the conferences very enlightening. We had the chance to meet people from very different projects, like Jorge Salamero Sanz who was speaking about Samba 4 and SSO integration, Jan-Piet Mens speaking about the modern DNS challenges, Garrett Honeycutt from PuppetLabs (which leaded a great practical initiation to Puppet) and the surprising Evgeny and his “Database is enough” presentation.

Jonathan CLARKE, CTO at Normation, was present to introduce Rudder, a Configuration Management software aimed towards simple usage and extensibility.

We also met our local friends here to share a small sandwich and a not so small beer: François BAYART / A-Kaser and Fabrice FLORE-THEBAULT / themr0c.

This 2012 edition of the LOADays was a great success, so we are eagerly waiting for the 2013 one !

Yesterday, we held a seminar in our offices titled IT infrastructure: Balancing best practices and everyday constraints. Mark Burgess, pioneer of software configuration management and founding CTO of CFEngine AS, was our guest star, and gave a very interesting talk about the Third Wave of IT Management.

We took the opportunity to introduce Normation, presenting our mission, our strategic partnership with CFEngine AS, and the aims of Rudder. For those who weren’t there, we thought we’d share an extract of this presentation:

It was a great event, with many interesting questions and discussions, and we’d like to thank everyone who attended, and of course Mark for coming all the way to Paris for this, and his warm comments about Normation.

If you’re curious about Normation or Rudder, we’d love to hear from you – contact us by email, Twitter (@Normation and @RudderProject) or IRC (#rudder on FreeNode)!

Cette semaine, de mercredi à mercredi (du 22 au 29 février donc), Normation va faire son premier Barcamp Rudder !

Mais qu’est-ce qu’un barcamp ? D’après Wikipedia :

Un BarCamp est une rencontre, une non-conférence ouverte qui prend la forme d’ateliers-événements participatifs où le contenu est fourni par les participants qui doivent tous, à un titre ou à un autre, apporter quelque chose au Barcamp. C’est le principe pas de spectateur, tous participants.

(Source et plus d’infos : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/BarCamp)

L’objectif de cette semaine c’est d’améliorer Rudder, de faire qu’il nous plaît à tous, avant la sortie de la version 2.4.0 début mars, et travailler sur les sujets qu’on néglige parfois : communication, communauté, documentation, tests, qualité, ergonomie…

On profite de l’occasion pour faire une opération portes ouvertes : vous êtes les bienvenus chez nous tous les jours de 9h jusqu’à tard… Passez-nous faire un petit coucou, tester la dernière version de Rudder, nous donner votre avis, grignoter un morceau… Promis, on ne vous demandera pas vraiment de travailler

L’équipe de Normation au grand complet (9 personnes) vous donne donc rendez-vous tous les jours au 87 rue de Turbigo, 75003 Paris ! C’est au métro Temple sur la ligne 3 ou République sur les lignes 5, 8, 9 ou 11.

En particulier, un évènement communautaire autour de Rudder / CFEngine aura lieu jeudi soir pour se rencontrer et discuter (ou troller) autour d’un verre (ou deux).

Ca nous ferait très plaisir de vous voir ici alors n’hésitez pas à passer ! Si vous ne pouvez pas venir, rejoignez-nous sur IRC (#rudder sur FreeNode) ou suivez-nous sur Twitter (@normation et @RudderProject).