CFE Community

CFE Community is the Open Source core of CFEngine's innovative technology technology for data center self-healing, configuration and management. You can download and use this software freely at any time. It forms the basis for our professional enterprise solutions.

CFEngine Community, licensed under GPL v3, is extended by powerful Enterprise frameworks (CFE Nova and CFE Constellation) licensed under a Commercial Open Source License (COSL), or a Commercial Open Binary License, at your option.

Having kept hundreds of thousands of computers compliant and secure over the past 15 years, with Promise Theory inspired technology, we are striding towards the future of configuration management with:

  • Powerful language with a simple uniform syntax and templating features.
  • Integrated self-diagnostics and automated self-healing documentation.
  • Distributed monitoring and integrated reporting.
  • Generic file editing with multiple models.
  • Pattern matching and design features to match any environment, large and small.
  • Integrated knowledge management using topic maps.
  • GPL 3 code for open inspection and security auditing.

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