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Rex - Deployment and Configuration Management

By Jan Gehring (‎jfried‎)
Lightning talk
Target audience: Any
Language: English
Tags: automation configuration deployment management sysadmin

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Rex is a server orchestration tool. It is designed for software deployments and configuration management. It doesn't require an agent on the target system. Everything runs over SSH.
You can define your infrastructure inside a file called Rexfile. This file is written in perl.
In this lightning talk i will give a short overview of the features and how to integrate Rex in a deployment process with Jenkins.