CFEngine is the "granddaddy" of configuration management. It's been around something like 17 years at this point. CFEngine spawned Puppet spawned Chef (rougly

CFEngine is the "granddaddy" of configuration management. It's been around something like 17 years at this point. CFEngine spawned Puppet spawned Chef (rougly speaking) I never got involved with BCfg2 or lcfg so I don't remember the history behind.