Description:
Help manage and understand IT infrastructure
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Type: Formula
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Latest Version: 3.26.0@1
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Tracked Since: Dec 17, 2025
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Links:
Homepage |
@CFEngine |
formulae.brew.sh
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Category: Devops
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Tags:
configuration-management
devops
automation
infrastructure-as-code
compliance
system-administration
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Install:
brew install cfengine
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About:
CFEngine is an open-source configuration management system designed to automate the setup and maintenance of large-scale IT infrastructure. It ensures that systems remain in a desired, secure state through a model-driven approach that is lightweight, fast, and scalable. The tool provides robust self-healing capabilities, enabling autonomous management and compliance across diverse environments.
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Key Features:
- Declarative policy language for defining system state
- High-performance, scalable architecture for managing thousands of hosts
- Convergent and self-healing enforcement to maintain compliance
- Agent-based model with minimal resource footprint
- Strong security features including signed policies and access control
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Use Cases:
- Automated server provisioning and baseline configuration
- Ensuring continuous compliance and security posture
- Managing configuration across hybrid cloud and on-premise data centers
- Drift detection and remediation for critical infrastructure
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Alternatives:
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Ansible
– Agentless and uses YAML, whereas CFEngine uses an agent and a declarative policy language, often cited as more performant at extreme scale.
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Puppet
– Uses a client-server model with a declarative DSL; CFEngine is more lightweight and operates primarily in a peer-to-peer fashion.
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Chef
– Uses Ruby for configuration definitions, offering more flexibility but higher complexity compared to CFEngine's focused policy language.
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License: BSD-3-Clause AND GPL-2.0-or-later AND GPL-3.0-only AND LGPL-2.0-or-later
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Dependencies: librsync, lmdb, openssl@3, pcre2, linux-pam
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Bottles available for: arm64_tahoe, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, sonoma, arm64_linux, x86_64_linux
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