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Based on: CFEngine Quick Start Guide

1. Use 10.21.3.23 as cfhub (server), 10.21.3.31 as cfhost (client);

2. Install cfengine on both cfhub and cfhost:

   i. download cfengine-community_3.5.1-3_i386.deb;

   i. Ensure OpenSSL, BerkeleyDB and PCRE are installed: apt-get install libdb4.* libpcre3 libssl, so weired that this can not be excecuted in zsh, but bash is ok;

   i. sudo dpkg --install cfengine-community_3.5.1-3_i386.deb;

3. Start policy server: /var/cfengine/bin/cf-agent -B 10.21.3.23;

4. Start client: same as above;

5. On cfhub: create a file cftest1.cf at /var/cfengine/masterfiles;

6. Modify /var/cfengine/masterfiles/promises.cf file;

7. ...

Uninstall CFEngine3

$ sudo apt-get purge cfengine-community

$ sudo rm -rf /var/cfengine

bcfg2

1. Use 10.21.3.31 as server: apt-get install bcfg2-server;

2. Use 10.21.3.23 as client: apt-get install bcfg2;

3. Initialize your repository

cdist

1. install python3: apt-get install python3;

2. git clone git://git.schottelius.org/cdist;

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