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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missing_ok and multiple augments in 3.12.0At SURFsara we use CFEngine on our National Compute Cluster (LISA) and other systems as our configuration management tool. With the release of CFEngine 3.12 I want to highlight 2 new features, namely: missing_ok multiple augments We use these 2 new features …
Restricting CFEngine to one CPU core using SystemdIn some performance critical situations, it makes sense to limit management software to a single CPU (core). We can do this using systemd and cgroups. CFEngine already provides systemd units on relevant platforms, we just need to tweak them. I’m using CFEngine …