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 3.7.6 released!We’re happy to announce that CFEngine 3.7.6 is released! With 3.7 being a stable LTS branch, 3.7.6 brings bug fixes and stability enhancements to the CFEngine customers and community. Looking at the CFEngine release schedule, we can see: 3.7 LTS is maintained …
Security Through AutomationToday’s approach to securing IT infrastructure is passé. In a dynamic world of unpredictable and often frequent infrastructure changes, the traditional approach to security falls short. It is no longer sufficient to just scan frequently for vulnerabilities and then try to interpret …