CFEngine

Key Features

* 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. * Ensure compliance - Define the desired state and configuration of your IT infrastructure, and CFEngine will automatically ensure that it complies. * Automate - Automatically roll out updates and changes to every node in your infrastructure, whether you have 50 or 50,000 nodes. * Everywhere - CFEngine uses autonomous agents which run on every node of your infrastructure, implementing your desired state and reporting back continuously. * Anywhere - CFEngine runs on the smallest embedded devices, on servers, in the cloud, and on mainframes, easily handling tens of thousands of nodes. * Lower operating costs - Automated IT-infrastructures require fewer resources. Lower your system-to-admin ratio by automating with CFEngine – one highly automated organization using CFEngine estimates more than $5 million in annual savings, on labor alone. * Faster response times - CFEngine allows you to change your IT entire infrastructure, large or small, within 5 minutes. CFEngine’s responsiveness and agility allows you to roll out critical fixes quickly and efficiently. * Reduce risk of outages - Unplanned downtime comes at a high cost, and 80% of unplanned outages are due to ill-planned changes made by administrators or developers. CFEngine’s customers ensure that changes to the IT infrastructure are consistent and stay compliant over time – no more risky one-offs or fire-and-forget! * Self healing - Built upon Promise Theory, CFEngine’s self-healing capabilities are unique in the industry. Fix undesired drift automatically – for 2, 20, 200, 2000 or 20,000 servers. * Enables you to grow - One CFEngine customer once had a team of 5 people and 500 servers. Today the team is still 5 people, but the numbers of servers they manage has grown to over 25,000. Investment in automation enables your IT organization to support its business regardless of how fast it grows.