A CLI for humans to interact with CFEngine, enabling downloading and installing packages, building policy sets, deploying, and enforcing policy.
It is practically a wrapper around our other tools, like cf-agent, cf-hub, cf-remote and cfbs.
Warning: This is an early version. Things might be missing or changed. Proceed with caution and excitement.
Install using pip:
pip install cfenginecfengine runcfengine helpcfengine runcfengine formatcfengine lintNote that since we use a different parser than cf-agent / cf-promises, they are not 100% in sync.
cf-agent could point out something as a syntax error, while cfengine lint does not and vice versa.
We aim to make the tree-sitter parser (used in this tool) more strict in general, so that when cfengine lint is happy with your policy, cf-agent will also accept it.
(But the opposite is not a goal, that cfengine lint must accept any policy cf-agent would find acceptable).
cfengine build(This is equivalent to running cfbs build).
This tool will only support a limited number of platforms, it is not intended to run everywhere CFEngine runs. Currently we are targeting:
- Officially supported versions of macOS, Ubuntu, and Fedora.
- Officially supported versions of Python.
It is not intended to be installed on all hosts in your infrastructure. CFEngine itself supports a wide range of platforms, but this tool is intended to run on your laptop, your workstation, or the hub in your infrastructure, not all the other hosts.
This CLI is entirely intended for humans. If you put it into scripts and automation, expect it to break in the future. In order to make the user experience better, we might add, change, or remove commands. We will also be experimenting with different types of interactive prompts and input.
Looking for more information related to contributing code, releasing new versions or otherwise maintaining the CFEngine CLI? Please see the HACKING.md file.