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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Ansible|CFEngine white paperAnsible and CFEngine are two configuration management tools and at first glance they look like competitors – two tools dealing with the same problem, in very different ways. But are they? Maybe they are actually not dealing with the same problem and …
Using cf-remote to download and install CFEngine nightliesNightly packages are very useful for testing new features of CFEngine. Right now, nightly packages can be used to test out these new features: Compliance Reports. Mission Portal Dark Mode. New host info page with variable pinning and copy buttons. Note that …