The open-source configuration and infrastructure management solution for software-defined infrastructure.

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What is Uyuni?

Uyuni is a configuration and infrastructure management tool that saves you time and headaches when you have to manage and update tens, hundreds or even thousands of machines.

Expand Icon: Click to reveal additional information. Automated patch and package management

enables you to deploy patches and packages based on software channels and repositories you can assign, helping you to reduce costs.

any Linux server connected to the network, from IoT edge devices to your Kubernetes environment, no matter where it is located – in your data center, a 3rd party data center or in the public cloud.

of hardened OS templates (bare metal, VM or container) to tens of thousands of servers and IoT devices for faster, consistent and repeatable provisioning and configuration without compromising speed or security.

How does Uyuni work?

Uyuni leverages the Salt configuration management system to manage clients. The Uyuni Server is a full-fledged Salt Master node, allowing you to register and manage Salt clients. For more information about Salt, see the Salt documentation at Salt Project

and reporting with the ability to track all hardware and software changes made to your managed Linux infrastructure helps to ensure compliance with internal security policies

deployed in hybrid cloud and container infrastructures that are out of compliance to hardened profiles/templates based on your own internal security policies ensuring faster non-compliant remediation.

with graphical visualization of your Linux systems and their relationships along with the capability to organize them into logical groupings based on tags (e.g. location, rack, vendor, CPU architecture, RAM, etc.)

Latest news

24/02/2026

Important note for upgrading to Uyuni 2026.01.
This release bumps the database to PostgreSQL 18. If you are upgrading an existing Uyuni version, please note that a bug in the version-detection logic requires a manual workaround:

  1. Run this migration script.
  2. Execute mgradm upgrade podman

This only affects upgrades; new installations will configure PostgreSQL 18 automatically.

For more details, see GitHub Issue #11444.

05/02/2026

Uyuni 2026.01 is now available. This release support openSUSE Leap 16.0 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16 as client OSes. Additionally enhanced support for Ansible and RBAC and some critical vulnerabilities (CVEs). Check the release notes for the full details before upgrading!