Or you might break everything to specific aspects rather than a feature comparison such as; simplicity, performance, scalability, reliability, usability, user base or even community support.
For simplicity, I might say Puppet is easier to understand at first and a learning curve of Cfengine could be too steep for many people. Scalability, both product do pretty good in their own way, but Cfengine is aimed to support larger infrastructures than Puppet. No doubt about Cfengine is clearly a better solution in Reliability (strongly distributed). The failure of the Puppet master can cause clients to deviate from the configured state (single point of failure). I don't know about the community of Puppet. Some people claimed that Puppet community is larger and more eager to help, for me, Cfengine community, of course. Not to mention, Performance, in terms of Memory Usage, Operation Speed or Windows support. :-) Cheers, --Nakarin On Sep 15, 2010, at 7:33 PM, no-re...@cfengine.com wrote: > Forum: Cfengine Help > Subject: Re: I've written an article about how Cfengine relates to > Chef and Puppet in terms of origin; and its new capabilities > Author: neilhwatson > Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php? > 3,18264,18265#msg-18265 > > I can't be specific but there is a large Linux centric organization > who is looking into configuration management products. Currently I > am told that the technical folks at this organization are favouring > Puppet over Cfengine. I don't have any practical experience with > Puppet to say anything good or bad about it. I am compiling a list > of good things about Cfengine that these people might not be aware > of. If anyone has some Puppet information they can share I'd > appreciate it. > > _______________________________________________ > Help-cfengine mailing list > Help-cfengine@cfengine.org > https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
