Symphony - Linux software configuration and
deployment
Symphony
is an open source software deployment framework designed
to
simplify
the
configuration
and
installation
of computer software on different
hardware platforms.
Symphony provides a simple interface to allow users to quickly and easily deploy systems built with different OS distributions on different hardware platforms. Developed for use in HPC clusters, physical and virtual data-centres, Symphony is capable of encapsulating commercial and open-source applications to provide repeatable, automated installation and configuration. Equipped with a system inventory database, our software is aware of your hardware configurations allowing applications to be automatically tuned for optimal performance on their target platform. Sophisticated image manipulation tools allow distributed systems to be deployed and configured quickly and easily, even from remote locations.
By breaking down software installation
tasks into a sequence of
smaller actions, Symphony helps users to build up complex environments
and deploy them over different, distributed machines. To increase
automation, the framework maintains a database of hardware information
allowing it to tailor each installation to the target machine. Features
including multiple Linux distribution support and portable instruction
files maximise flexibility and help reduce the administration burden of
deploying hetrogeneous machines.
Symphony is freely available as Open Source software maintained by Alces Software.
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