Speed
Written in C. The leanest and fastest solution in the industry with execution time less than 1 second.
Security
The open source configuration solution with the best security record.
Stability
The most mature solution in the industry, conducting hundreds of billions of compliance checks in large-scale production environments.
Scalability
Deploy a model-based configuration change across 50,000 servers in 5 minutes.
The largest and most complex IT infrastructures use CFEngine to make consistent global changes.
"LinkedIn is the largest professional social network and is currently the 10th largest website in the US by traffic. Our ops team will make around 5-10 production changes per day. CFEngine provides the automation framework and gives us the ability to continue to scale operationally."
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CFEngine 3.12.2 LTS ReleasedWe are happy to release the 2nd update to the CFEngine 3.12 LTS series. This update comes with many important stability and performance improvements and is thus well worth the upgrade from an older version of 3.12 LTS. CFEngine 3.12 LTS brings …
How can I execute a command that uses command substitution in CFEngine?This was originally published here, it has been re-published with permission. How can I execute a command that uses command substitution in CFEngine? On the console I might execute something like this: Listing 1: Example command substitution touch /tmp/file-$(date –iso-8601) ls /tmp/file-* …