How It Works

CFEngine manages the full life-cycle of your IT infrastructure. It has a powerful language and tools to define the desired state of your infrastructure, whether a single server or a complex, global network with many thousands servers, storage and network devices. Powerful agent technology then ensures that this state is continuously maintained.  And the CFDB and Mission Portal help you verify and report on compliance with the defined state.

CFEngine is the industry leader in automation of large-scale, software defined IT-infrastructure.

CFEngine helps IT organizations improve productivity in times of growing demands and constrained resources. With CFEngine IT organizations provision new services 10x faster, while providing continuous availability and security compliance. Known for its ability to handle scale and complexity, CFEngine enables even the largest organizations in the world to become more agile. CFEngine has users in more than 100 countries, including many of the world’s largest financial organizations, as well as companies like IBM, eBay, Cisco, Qualcomm, AMD, US Navy, US Energy Department, NASA AT&T, Chevron and Linkedin.

CFEngine is estimated to run on more than 10 million servers worldwide, executing billions of configuration checks every hour and automatically fixing thousands of system drifts that otherwise would have destabilized the infrastructure and required manual correction.

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