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CFEngine vs pyinfra: catalog facts
CFEngine	pyinfra
Freemium Free Community edition, with a commercial Enterprise edition.	Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.
Linux, Self-hosted, Command line	macOS, Linux, Command line
Lightweight agent suited to large fleets Configuration drift prevention and compliance reporting	Deployments and inventories are plain Python, with no YAML or DSL Agentless, needing only SSH access to the targets
Own policy language to learn Web UI and reporting belong to the Enterprise edition	Requires Python 3.10 or later on the control machine Writing deploys assumes comfort with Python
Downloadable app, Self-hosted	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License not stated	License: MIT
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 24, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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