Name: CFEngine
Rating: 9 (3 reviews)
Author: CFEngine

Help Desk

Web and Video Conferencing

Customer Support

Help Authoring

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)

Development

Business Intelligence (BI)

Collaboration

Digital Rights Management (DRM)

IP PBX

Visual Collaboration

Enterprise

Accounting

FinTech

Financial Close

Trust Management

Finance and Accounting

Applicant Tracking

Corporate Learning Management

Corporate Wellness

Employee Scheduling

HR Management

Payroll

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Vendor Management Systems (VMS)

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)

Archiving

Bug Bounty

Build Automation

Cloud Storage

Code Review

Composable Infrastructure

Data Center Outsourcing (Europe)

Email Encryption

Fraud Detection

Hadoop-Related

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

Low-Code Development

Network Diagnostics

Network Performance Monitoring

Process Mining

Security Validation

Storage Management

Web Access Management

Web Scraping

Zero Trust Security Solutions

Information Technology

A/B Testing

Ad Serving & Retargeting

All-in-One Marketing

Blogging

Content Management

Customer Journey Analytics

Email Marketing

Marketing Automation

Mobile Analytics

Public Relations (PR)

Sales and Marketing Automation

Social Media Management

Survey & Forms Building

Web Analytics

Marketing

Job Site Management

Project Management

Professional Services

Conversation Intelligence

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Sales

Microsegmentation

User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA)

Security

Chiropractic

ID Card

Insurance Underwriting and Rating

Legal Case Management

Moving Software

Nonprofit CRM

Real Estate Property Management

Spreadsheet

Travel Agency

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CFEngine is an open source configuration management system.

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CFEngine

Learn more:
https://docs.cfengine.com/docs/3.15/enterprise-cfengine-guide-high-availability.html

High Availability (HA) CFEngine Enterprise Reporting (Developer demo)

By using CFEngine notification framework it is easy to integrate non-compliant events managed by CFEngine with PagerDuty via emails. This demo will show you how.

CFEngine & PagerDuty integration

Downloading and Installing cf-remote (Developer demo)

In this demo we will show you a CFEngine policy that sends Sumo Logic a timestamp whenever a new policy is being deployed

CFEngine and Sumo Logic, event correlation

The CFEngine Build System - cfbs (Developer Demo)

"CFEngine: The Agent Is In" is our monthly webinar series, where we show new features, teach best practices, and keep the community informed about everything CFEngine. To register for the next webinar, click here:

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_JPz9ADvBRS2Ih8SaT0z2Uw

CFEngine: The Agent Is In 2 - Community User Demo with Jeff Carlson

This video shows how you can test the latest features of CFEngine Enterprise with a local virtual machine.

Download VirtualBox:
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

Download vagrant:
https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads

Download cf-remote:
https://pypi.org/project/cf-remote/

Testing the latest CFEngine features locally with nightly builds and vagrant (Developer Demo)

A preview of cf-keycrypt, a new utility coming in CFEngine 3.16.

Note: cf-keycrypt was renamed to cf-secret and is available in CFEngine 3.15.3+.

Using cf-keycrypt to encrypt host-specific secrets (Developer demo)

CFEngine Build in Mission Portal Web UI (Developer demo)

A quick demo of spacemacs and executing cfengine src blocks from within org-mode

Tools and features offered by configuration management software.

Infrastructure Automation

Automate the setup of systems to achieve their desired state using configuration files.

Automated Provisioning

Automatically and systematically deploy, configure, and manage IT infrastructure and resources.

Parallel Execution

Allows for the simultaneous execution of configuration changes across multiple nodes or components.

Node Management

Allows for the administration and oversight of individual devices or systems within a network.

Reporting & Logging

Generate reports and logs to track changes made to configurations, aiding in troubleshooting and auditing.

Inventory Control

Maintain an inventory of all devices, servers, and components in the infrastructure and track the configurations and attributes of each item.

Version Control

Track changes made to configurations over time. Allowing for rollback to previous configurations if needed.

Role-based access control

Implement RBAC to control access to configuration management features based on roles and responsibilities.

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A quick demo of spacemacs and executing cfengine src blocks from within org-mode

CFEngine Build in Mission Portal Web UI (Developer demo)

Using cf-keycrypt to encrypt host-specific secrets (Developer demo)

Testing the latest CFEngine features locally with nightly builds and vagrant (Developer Demo)

CFEngine: The Agent Is In 2 - Community User Demo with Jeff Carlson

The CFEngine Build System - cfbs (Developer Demo)

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