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    Infrastructure automation<br/>for security posture
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## What is Rudder?

Rudder is a system infrastructure automation platform, dedicated to empowering IT operational teams
to ensure and improve their security posture and fostering collaboration in Security Operations (SecOps).

### Features

- **Security posture management:** Automate critical IT operations to fortify infrastructure security:
  - Automated systems inventory
  - Patch management
  - Vulnerability management
  - System hardening and security standards compliance
- **Configuration management:** Streamline and automate configuration tasks for enhanced reliability, with advanced compliance visualization. Configuration policies can be created seamlessly using a visual editor, or YAML code.
- **Multi-platform support:** Manage diverse environments, including Cloud, hybrid, and on-premise setups, running on Linux or Windows.
- **Scalable and Dynamic approach:** A scalable and dynamic approach to infrastructure management, including a powerful hierarchical configuration data engine and automated classification of managed systems. Typical deployments manage 100s to 1000s of systems, and a single Rudder server can manage more than 10k systems.

Learn more about Rudder features and use cases [on the website](https://www.rudder.io/).

### Online demo

Browse the [demo Web interface](https://demo.rudder.io) (with fake data) to get a glimpse of the available features and interfaces.

<a href="https://demo.rudder.io"><img height="300" alt="Rudder dashboard" src="readme-resources/dashboard.png" /></a>

### Components

A Rudder installation is