Introduction

quattor is a system administration toolkit providing a powerful, portable, and modular set of tools for the automated installation, configuration, and management of clusters and farms. It is developed as a community effort and provided as open-source software.

quattor was originally developed to manage the clusters and services used in grid computing. Today, quattor is being used to manage at least 10 separate infrastructures spread across Europe. These range from massive single-site installations such as ​CERN (where more than 7000 machines are managed) to highly-distributed grid infrastructures such as ​Grid-Ireland (which is made up of 18 physical installations). For more details on quattor deployments, see [Deployments].

To find out more about quattor works, have a look at these pages:

• Web/Overview: explains the basic approach of quattor
• ​quattor profile explorer: to explore 3D visualisations of quattor configuration profiles
• find out which services quattor can manage at the ​list of components.
• a ​system inventory automatically generated from quattor profiles