cfengine overview - pros and cons

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 12/22/06, David Douthitt <ssrat at ticon.net> wrote:
> I've used cfengine in a production environment, and found it to be very
> useful and powerful.  I'll just list the features (pro and con) below.
>
> PROS
> ----
> * Distributed operations

* Self contained binary.

>
> CONS
> ----
> * Documentation - comprehensive but can be hard to know where to start
> with new installations
> * Configuration is unlike anything you've ever seen
> * The "editfiles" section of the configuration is also unlike anything
> you've ever seen - and is different than any other configuration section

Actually almost every section has its own variants of the syntax.

The second con is that this is a research project for the author and
not much else.. this can make dealing with problems a bit of a
headache when he has completely theoretical issues he wants to try
out.


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