# cfengine mit Homebrew, apk installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für cfengine in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:cfengine
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install cfengine
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- apk (92%):

```sh
sudo apk add cfengine
```

  Evidenz: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: cfengine from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:cfengine
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 3.28.0
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Help manage and understand IT infrastructure
- **Homepage:** <https://cfengine.com/>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-07-31T08:47:01+01:00
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- cf-agent (Alias)
- cf-check (Alias)
- cf-execd (Alias)
- cf-key (Alias)
- cf-monitord (Alias)
- cf-net (Alias)
- cf-promises (Alias)
- cf-runagent (Alias)
- cf-secret (Alias)
- cf-serverd (Alias)
- cf-support (Alias)
- cf-upgrade (Alias)
- rpmvercmp (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 3.28.0
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

CFEngine is a long-running open source configuration management and infrastructure automation system. Official docs describe lightweight C-based agents that continually converge machines toward desired state written in the CFEngine policy language.

### Projektgeschichte

The CFEngine core README says CFEngine was originally created by Mark Burgess and that CFEngine 3 is a popular open source configuration management system for automated configuration and maintenance of large-scale computer systems. The same README describes CFEngine 3 as a significant, incompatible generation after CFEngine 2.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

The official overview says CFEngine runs across many platforms, from embedded devices through servers, cloud systems, and mainframes, and can handle tens or hundreds of thousands of hosts. The input package facts show it packaged for Homebrew and Alpine.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Administrators write desired state in `.cf` policy files, normally stored under `/var/cfengine/masterfiles` on policy hubs and cached into `/var/cfengine/inputs` on clients before local `cf-agent` execution.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

CFEngine matters in package-manager culture because it is one of the classic Unix-native configuration management agents: a pile of small `cf-*` binaries, a private `/var/cfengine` workspace, local convergence, and policy-as-code before that term became fashionable.

### Zeitleiste

- CFEngine 2 era: CFEngine 3 kept enough server protocol compatibility to support gradual upgrades.
- 2012: Official `cfengine/core` GitHub repository metadata records repository creation.
- CFEngine 3: Official README documents a more powerful but policy-language-incompatible generation.

### Related projects

- Official source repositories include `cfengine/core`, `cfengine/masterfiles`, `cfengine/documentation`, `cfengine/cf-remote`, and `cfengine/buildscripts`.
- CFEngine's documentation links the system to Promise Theory.

### Quellen

- <https://api.github.com/repos/cfengine/core>
- <https://github.com/cfengine/core>
- <https://cfengine.com/>
- <https://docs.cfengine.com/>
- <https://docs.cfengine.com/docs/3.27/overview/directory-structure>
- <https://github.com/cfengine/core#readme>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/cfengine.json>


## Sicherheitshinweise

infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** orange / mittel
- infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal


## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: /var/cfengine/masterfiles, /var/cfengine/inputs

## Credential files

- Unix: /var/cfengine/ppkeys
## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- apk - cfengine - 3.27.1-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: cfengine from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | A systems administration tool for networks | https://www.cfengine.com/
- apk - cfengine-doc - 3.27.1-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: cfengine-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | A systems administration tool for networks (documentation) | https://www.cfengine.com/
- apk - cfengine-masterfiles - 3.27.1-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: cfengine-masterfiles from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Cfengine default masterfiles | https://www.cfengine.com/


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/cfengine.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/cfengine.yml)


## Quellen

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph