Bcfg2 (bee-config two) helps system administrators produce a consistent, reproducible, and verifiable description of their environment, and offers visualization and reporting tools to aid in day-to-day administrative tasks. It is the fifth generation of configuration management tools developed in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory.
- Homepage: http://bcfg2.org
Bcfg2 is fairly portable. It has been successfully run on:
- AIX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD Mac OS X, OpenSolaris, Solaris
- Many GNU/Linux distributions, including Arch Linux, Blag, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, gNewSense, Mandriva, openSUSE, Red Hat/RHEL, SuSE/SLES, Trisquel, and Ubuntu.
For details about the installation of Bcfg2 please refer to the following pages in the Bcfg2 online documentation:
- Prerequisites: http://docs.bcfg2.org/installation/prerequisites.html
- Download: http://bcfg2.org/download/
- Installation: http://docs.bcfg2.org/installation/index.html
A lot of documentation is available in the Bcfg2 manual and the Bcfg2 wiki.
- Documentation: http://docs.bcfg2.org/
- Wiki: http://bcfg2.org/wiki/
- FAQ: http://bcfg2.org/wiki/FAQ
- IRC: #bcfg2 on irc.libera.chat
- Mailing list: https://lists.mcs.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/bcfg-dev
- Bug tracker: http://bcfg2.org/report
- Development: http://docs.bcfg2.org/development/
- Wiki: http://bcfg2.org/wiki/Contribute
Bcfg2 is licensed under a Simplified (2-clause) BSD license. For more details check LICENSE.
