cdist

cdist is a <a href="/facts/Free_software/IaoVtJXn">free</a> <a href="/facts/Software_configuration_management/VReDo7g4">software configuration management</a> tool for <a href="/facts/Unix-like/YAKrAxzd">Unix-like</a> systems. It manages
<a href="/facts/Node_(networking)/LBp2vNcJ">nodes</a> over <a href="/facts/Secure_Shell/wjVRw5zv">SSH</a> using the 
<a href="/facts/Bourne_Shell/wUCh3Qkl">Bourne Shell</a>, and does not require any additional software to be installed on target nodes.
Cdist differentiates itself from competing configuration management systems by choosing the Bourne Shell as the primary language for writing configuration scripts and requiring effectively no dependencies on target nodes. Although cdist's core is written in <a href="/facts/Python_(programming_language)/YbuGqofa">Python</a>, an interpreter is only required on the host machine, not target nodes.
Cdist was <a href="/facts/Fork_(software_development)/D6khxhpr">forked</a> in August 2022 as skonfig.

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