Some Cfengine Users
Cfengine Community Edition3 is the Open Source core of our brand new
technology for data center self-healing, configuration and management.
You can download and use this software freely at any time. It forms the basis for our
professional enterprise solutions.
Cfengine Community Edition, licensed under GPL v3, is extended by powerful Enterprise frameworks (Nova, Constellation and Galaxy) licensed under a Commercial Open Source License (COSL), or a Commercial Open Binary License, at your option.
Cfengine 3 is a new chapter in Cfengine's trusted configuration technology, building on core principles that have kept hundreds of thousands of computers compliant and secure over the past 15 years, and extending them with Promise Theory inspired technology. We are striding towards the future of configuration management with
- A brand new language with a simple uniform syntax and powerful templating features.
- Integrated self-diagnostics and automated self-healing documentation.
- Many features simplified but extended.
- Distributed monitoring and integrated reporting.
- Generic file editing with multiple models.
- Pattern matching and design features to match any environment, large and small.
- Integrated knowledge management using topic maps.
- Support models and training available from Cfengine AS.
- Upcoming Enterprise version in mid-2009 with extended features, including CMDB support.
- GPL 3 code for open inspection and security auditing.
- Full integration with existing Cfengine 2 systems.
- Auto-encapsulation of Cfengine 2 for incremental upgrade.
