diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'README.rst')
| -rw-r--r-- | README.rst | 50 |
1 files changed, 50 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..9c99d31c1 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.rst @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +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 chat.freenode.net +* 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. |