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cdist vs WhatIsStatus

A side-by-side look at cdist and WhatIsStatus. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

cdist

cdist

System & Hardware

cdist is an open source configuration management tool written in Python. It allows system administrators to define the configuration of servers and deploy it to multiple machines in parallel. cdist works by running small scripts called 'manifests' on remote hosts.

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WhatIsStatus

WhatIsStatus

Online Services

WhatIsStatus is a free and open-source status page system that allows you to easily create an elegant status page to communicate issues and outages for your products, services or infrastructure. It provides features like status indicators, incident timelines, RSS feeds, and more.

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