Bcfg2 - A Configuration Management System

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.

Installation

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

Need help

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

Want to help

• 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.