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CFEngine Enterprise Alternatives

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Considering alternatives to CFEngine Enterprise? See what this market CFEngine Enterprise users also considered in their purchasing decision. When evaluating different solutions, potential buyers compare competencies in categories such as evaluation and contracting, integration and deployment, service and support, and specific product capabilities.

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1. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

By IBM (Red Hat)

4
(37 Ratings)
Automation Controller provides a good ground for automation of simple configuration processes. Based on our needs, there is a need to have a better monitoring and auditing system for the automation needs for our firm across our infrastructure.Read all insights and reviews for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
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2. Chef Automate

By Progress Software

3.7
(36 Ratings)
Chef Automate is useful when it comes to configuration management and its automation specifically where there is no reliable drift detection and remediation. This puts a lot of work on our team to manually look for configuration differences and make corrections on them.Read all insights and reviews for Chef Automate
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3. SaltStack Enterprise

By SaltStack

3.8
(33 Ratings)
While Saltstack is a straightforward automation tool that interacts with agents to deploy applications or execute automation steps, the Saltstack Enterprise (SSE) Web portal falls short in terms of efficiency. Troubleshooting through its job logs can be challengingRead all insights and reviews for SaltStack Enterprise
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4. Puppet Enterprise

By Perforce

4.2
(23 Ratings)
Puppet has been able to help us implement solutions or guide for possible pitfalls we might run into. There have been bumps and unresolved issues that at times are not directly evident and would require changing the product that might steer away from new incoming users but larger enterprises do not want or require more stringent requirements.Read all insights and reviews for Puppet Enterprise
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5. Aiden Automated Endpoint Management

By Aiden Technologies

4.9
(8 Ratings)
From start to finish the implementation went smoothly, Aiden support was there step by step and provided very detailed documentation.Read all insights and reviews for Aiden Automated Endpoint Management
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6. BackBox

By BackBox

4.5
(3 Ratings)
We are globally happy with this solution as it allows us to reach our main goals : management/automation/backup of network devices in our IT infrastructure.Read all insights and reviews for BackBox
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7. env0

By env zero

4.3
(3 Ratings)
.. Overall, my experience with env0 has been good . good visibility and control over infra as code deployments and helps enforce governance through policies and approvals. The UI is user-friendly and easy to udnerstand, drift detection is a also valuable feature.Read all insights and reviews for env0

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8. Otter

By Inedo

5
(1 Rating)
The overall experience has been great. Earlier I was using the free version of the software but I later recommended the same to out organization for paid versionRead all insights and reviews for Otter
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Top Alternatives to CFEngine Enterprise

  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
  • Chef Automate
  • SaltStack Enterprise
  • Puppet Enterprise
  • Aiden Automated Endpoint Management
  • BackBox
  • env0
  • Otter

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