What is Uyuni?
Uyuni is an open-source systems management and configuration platform for Linux. It began as a fork of Spacewalk and is the upstream community project from which SUSE Multi-Linux Manager is derived. The Uyuni Project is part of the openSUSE Project, and the code is on GitHub under the GPL-2.0 licence.
Uyuni uses the Salt configuration management system to manage clients. The Uyuni Server acts as a full Salt Master node, so you register and manage Salt clients from it. The project describes it as a tool for managing and updating tens, hundreds or even thousands of machines, from IoT edge devices to Kubernetes environments, in your own data center, a third-party data center or the public cloud.
Patch and package management works through software channels and repositories that you assign. Uyuni can also deploy hardened OS templates (bare metal, VM or container) for repeatable provisioning, track hardware and software changes for compliance auditing and reporting, and group systems by tags such as location, rack, vendor, CPU architecture or RAM.
The project publishes guides, API documentation and a reporting database schema, and ships frequent releases such as 2026.10.
Key capabilities
- Automated patch and package management through software channels and repositories
- Salt-based client management with the Uyuni Server as Salt Master
- Automated deployment of hardened OS templates on bare metal, VM or container
- Compliance auditing and reporting of hardware and software changes
- Detection of systems that drift from hardened profiles
- Grouping of systems by tags such as location, rack and vendor
- Guides, API documentation and a reporting database schema
Where Uyuni fits
- Patch and package management
- Configuration management with Salt
- OS provisioning
- Compliance auditing and reporting
- Linux server onboarding from edge to Kubernetes
- System grouping and visualization
- Documented API
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