Cfengine vs Chef

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What are the differences in term of features between Cfengine and Chef?

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Aleksey Tsalolikhin On BEST ANSWER

Chef has much greater integration with "cloud" VM hosting providers, and a greater amount of recipe sharing than CFEngine.

CFEngine takes less resources when it runs, and runs on a much greater range of computing environments from embedded devices to supercomputers, and on a lot more operating systems -- it's just a few small C binaries and a couple of C libraries, so it is more portable.

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jtimberman On

From the Chef FAQ:

How is it different than Cfengine?

It bears very little in common with Cfengine, other than embracing Single Copy Nirvana.

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Nicolas Charles On

I don't know much about Chef, just been reading their web site, and I'm quite familiar with Cfengine; so take my answer with a grain of salt.

From what I gathered, the main difference is that Cfengine runs on both Linux/Unixes and Windows, while Chef only support Linux/Unixes.