What is CFEngine?
It is an IT infrastructure automation and Continuous Operations framework that helps engineers, system administrators and other stakeholders in an IT organization manage IT infrastructure while ensuring service levels and compliance
CFEngine is a tool in the Server Configuration and Automation category of a tech stack.
CFEngine is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to CFEngine's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses CFEngine?
Companies
Developers
6 developers on StackShare have stated that they use CFEngine.
CFEngine Integrations
Datadog, Airbrake, Rackspace Cloud Servers, Server Density, and HP Cloud Compute are some of the popular tools that integrate with CFEngine. Here's a list of all 5 tools that integrate with CFEngine.
CFEngine's Features
- Configuration management
- Process management.
CFEngine Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to CFEngine?
Ansible
Ansible is an IT automation tool. It can configure systems, deploy software, and orchestrate more advanced IT tasks such as continuous deployments or zero downtime rolling updates. Ansible’s goals are foremost those of simplicity and maximum ease of use.
Salt
Salt is a new approach to infrastructure management. Easy enough to get running in minutes, scalable enough to manage tens of thousands of servers, and fast enough to communicate with them in seconds.
Salt delivers a dynamic communication bus for infrastructures that can be used for orchestration, remote execution, configuration management and much more.
Puppet Labs
Puppet is an automated administrative engine for your Linux, Unix, and Windows systems and performs administrative tasks (such as adding users, installing packages, and updating server configurations) based on a centralized specification.
Chef
Chef enables you to manage and scale cloud infrastructure with no downtime or interruptions. Freely move applications and configurations from one cloud to another. Chef is integrated with all major cloud providers including Amazon EC2, VMWare, IBM Smartcloud, Rackspace, OpenStack, Windows Azure, HP Cloud, Google Compute Engine, Joyent Cloud and others.
Terraform
With Terraform, you describe your complete infrastructure as code, even as it spans multiple service providers. Your servers may come from AWS, your DNS may come from CloudFlare, and your database may come from Heroku. Terraform will build all these resources across all these providers in parallel.