Supported Platforms and Versions

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CFEngine works on a wide range of platforms, and the CFEngine team strives to provide support for the platforms most frequently used by our users. CFEngine provides binary packages of the Enterprise edition for all supported platforms and binary packages for popular Linux distributions for the Community edition.

Enterprise Server

Platform Versions Architecture
CentOS/RHEL 6, 7 x86-64
Debian 7, 8, 9 x86-64
Ubuntu 14.04, 16.04 x86-64

Any supported host can be a policy server in Community installations of CFEngine.

Hosts

Platform Versions Architectures
AIX 5.3*, 6, 7 PowerPC
CentOS/RHEL 4, 5, 6, 7 x86-64, x86
Debian 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 x86-64, x86
HP-UX 11.23+ Itanium
SLES 10, 11 x86-64, x86
Solaris 9, 11 UltraSparc
Solaris 10 UltraSparc, x86
Ubuntu 10.04, 12.04, 14.04, 16.04 x86-64, x86
Windows 2008 x86-64, x86
Windows 2008, 2012 x86-64

* AIX 5.3 is required to have "5300-05-CSP" or later

Known Issues also includes platform-specific notes.

CFEngine Enterprise has Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) Recognized status from IBM. This means that CFEngine Enterprise has been technically verified by IBM to be installed in and manage VIOS environments.

Future platform support

The CFEngine team will continue to support future releases of popular Host platforms, including RHEL, Debian, Ubuntu, as well as maintaining support for existing platforms important to users.

In general, CFEngine is known to run on a wide range of other platforms. As long as the platform is POSIX compliant and has a C compiler toolchain that fully implements the C99 standard, we are happy to work with you to make CFEngine available. Please contact our sales team for details.