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>> I will go over a few of the items that lead to CFEngine’s excellence, longevity in the market, and current strong position. CFEngine isn't in a strong posit
by slap 6y ago
>> I will go over a few of the items that lead to CFEngine’s excellence, longevity in the market, and current strong position.
CFEngine isn't in a strong position, it has been completely replaced by Chef/Ansible everywhere. It's barely used with some legacy systems.
- betaby 6y agoIt almost like Python vs Haskell. In theory you can solve the same problem with either. In practice approach would be very different. Same can be said about Ansible vs CFEngine - you can automate infrastructure with either but approach is substantially different.
- 7ArcticSealz 6y agoI have also as a consultant not observed it much in the wild in the past 12 years. I've seen a lot more chef/puppet/saltstack and in past 5 years, ansible installations especially in big enterprise companies. I was surprised to hear it is still kicking apparently though