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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Context-specific Security SettingsCFEngine is very simple to set up and use, especially if all of the clients and the hub are going to be using the same promises. But what if there are certain things you want to enforce on a hub and not …
From black box magic to automation transparencyThe CFEngine policy analyzer is an awesome new service introduced in CFEngine 3.13. The policy analyzer allows you to quickly debug policies and inspect what is going on under hood of CFEngine. A known challenge with CFEngine, and most DSL based automation …