Rudder
Jonathan Clarke is an experienced finance and administration leader with a robust background in the technology and brewing industries. Currently serving as the Head of Finance and Administration and CEO at Rudder, which Jonathan co-founded in 2010, this individual has played a pivotal role in the company’s growth and development in IT configuration automation. Additionally, Jonathan owns and operates a microbrewery, FAB Périgord, offering workshops and guesthouse accommodations while producing traditional unfiltered beers. Previous roles include organizing the devops REX event, where industry leaders gathered to address technical and cultural challenges, and holding various technical positions at companies like eNovance, Linagora, and Alcatel Alenia Space. Jonathan holds an engineering degree from INSA Toulouse and a recent qualification in food science and technology from La Rochelle Université.
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Rudder
Rudder is an easy to use, web-driven, role-based solution for IT Infrastructure Automation and Compliance. With a focus on continuously checking configurations and centralising real-time status data, Rudder can show a high-level summary (“ISO 27001 rules are at 100%!”) and break down noncompliance issues to a deep technical level (“Host prod-web-03: SSH server configuration allows root logins”). A few things that make Rudder stand out: - Simple framework to extend built-in rules to implement specific low-level configuration patterns, however complex they may be, using simple building blocks (“ensure package installed in version X,” “ensure file content,” “ensure line in file,” etc.). A graphical builder lowers the technical level required to use this. - Each policy can be independently set for audit only or automatic enforcement on a policy or host level. - Rudder works on almost all platforms, so you’ll be managing servers, cloud instances, and embedded IoT devices running Linux, Windows or AIX in the same way. - Rudder is designed for critical environments where a security breach can mean more than a blip in the sales stats. Built-in features include change requests, audit logs, and strong authentication. - Rudder relies on an agent that needs to be installed on all hosts to audit. The agent is very lightweight and blazingly fast. Installation is self-contained, via a single package, and can auto-update to limit agent management burden. - Rudder is a true and professional open source solution—the team behind Rudder doesn’t believe in the dual-speed licensing approach that makes you reinstall everything and promotes open source as little more than a “demo version.” Rudder is an established project with several 10000s of node managed, in companies from small to biggest-in-their-field. Typical deployments manage 100s to 1000s of nodes. The biggest known deployment in 2018 is about 10000 nodes.