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CFEngine Enterprise

bycfEngine
in Continuous Configuration Automation Tools (Transitioning to Infrastructure Automation and Orchestration Tools)
4.0

Overview

Product Information on CFEngine Enterprise

Updated 13th October 2025

What is CFEngine Enterprise?

CFEngine Enterprise is a software designed for automated configuration management and system maintenance across physical, virtual, and cloud-based environments. It provides scalable tools for defining, deploying, and enforcing configuration policies, ensuring consistency and compliance throughout the IT infrastructure. The software enables real-time monitoring, reporting, and remediation of configuration drift, supporting integration with existing workflows and infrastructure components. CFEngine Enterprise addresses challenges in maintaining operational reliability, reducing manual effort, and managing large-scale server fleets by automating tasks such as patch management, resource allocation, and policy updates. It is intended for organizations seeking consistent and efficient control over distributed computing resources.

CFEngine Enterprise Pricing

CFEngine Enterprise software uses a subscription-based pricing model, which is typically structured by the number of managed hosts. The software may offer various tiers based on deployment size and support requirements, and pricing details are generally available upon request through direct consultation with the provider.

Overall experience with CFEngine Enterprise

Quality Engineer
50M - 250M USD, IT Services
FAVORABLE

“CFEngine Enterprise: A tool for complete management of configurations of servers on cloud.”

4.0
Feb 24, 2020
Being an IT professional we have to work with so many tools to manage the production environment. CFEngine Enterprise is one of them, it is an configuration management tool that helps in configuration management of servers like downloading package, enabling and managing services, copying files and many more. It also allow to manage the configurations of embedded network devices, servers, mobile and tablets. It has large number of features to manage our infrastructure so efficiently.
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About Company

Company Description

Updated 24th March 2025

Established in 2008, Northern.tech specializes in device lifecycle management. Their main goal has been to secure connected devices across the globe. The firm introduced CFEngine, which is designed to automate IT operations and compliance on a large scale, marking their entry into server configuration management before the advent of IIoT and IoT. In 2015, Northern.tech brought forward Mender.io, a platform dedicated to over-the-air (OTA) software update management. This tool supports secure, robust, and customizable OTA software updates for intelligent devices, and is utilized to update software on a wide range of devices across the globe.

Company Details

Updated 29th April 2025
Company type
Private
Year Founded
2008
Head office location
Oslo, Norway
Number of employees
11 - 50
Website
https://northern.tech

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CFEngine Enterprise Likes & Dislikes

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The feature I like the most about CFEngine Enterprise that it use public-key encryption to identify clients which provide security to the system and another it can easily integrate with other platforms like Linux, windows and cvs etc.

Like

It is very flexible to use and the feature I like the most that it can work in both distributed and isolation manner. It has provided very comprehensive documentation to understand the working procedure of CFEngine.

Dislike

The thing which annoy me the most about CFEngine Enterprise is its customizability of the configuration that it provide. It should need to provide more efficient and easy way to customize the configuration.

Dislike

The problem I feel with CFEngine is that it doesn't work properly with file integrity checkers such as tripwire. The rest everything is fine.

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  • Quality Engineer
    50M-1B USD
    IT Services
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    CFEngine Enterprise: A tool for complete management of configurations of servers on cloud.

    4.0
    Feb 24, 2020
    Being an IT professional we have to work with so many tools to manage the production environment. CFEngine Enterprise is one of them, it is an configuration management tool that helps in configuration management of servers like downloading package, enabling and managing services, copying files and many more. It also allow to manage the configurations of embedded network devices, servers, mobile and tablets. It has large number of features to manage our infrastructure so efficiently.
  • Quality Engineer
    50M-1B USD
    IT Services
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    CFEngine Enterprise: One tool for all configurations and Delivery management of IT infra.

    4.0
    Feb 22, 2020
    As being IT professional we have to take care of so many configurations of our IT infrastructure which are not manageable manually. Here comes in CFEngine, it is a configuration management and continuous delivery tool that helps us to manage our servers in the IT environment. It can manage tens of thousands of servers at a time. It is a great tool for managing IT infrastructure very easily and efficiently.
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