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.

Enterprise Server

Platform Versions Architecture
CentOS 5, 6 x86-64
Debian 6, 7 x86-64
RHEL 5, 6 x86-64
SLES 11 x86-64
Ubuntu 10.04, 12.04 x86-64

Hosts

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

OS Versions Architectures
AIX 5.3*, 6, 7 PowerPC
CentOS 4, 5, 6, 7** x86-64, x86
Debian 6, 7 x86-64, x86
HP-UX 11.23+ Itanium
RHEL 4, 5, 6, 7** x86-64, x86
SLES 10, 11 x86-64, x86
Solaris 9 SPARC
Solaris 10, 11 UltraSparc
Ubuntu 10.04, 12.04 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

** RHEL 7 and CentOS 7 are currently not supported as hubs, see Known Issues

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.

Hub/Host compatibility

An upgrade path from previous versions is available from 3.6.1.

Some data will not be available from older hosts, and the policy you serve needs to take into account hosts with different versions.

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.