CFEngine 3: Promise Theory
Between 1998 and 2004, CFEngine grew in adoption along with the popularity of Linux as a computing platform.
During this time, Mark Burgess developed Promise Theory, a model of distributed cooperation for self-healing automation.
In 2008, after more than five years of research, CFEngine 3 was introduced, which incorporated Promise Theory as "a way to make CFEngine both simpler and more powerful at the same time", according to Burgess. The most significant re-write of the project to date, CFEngine 3 also integrated knowledge management and discovery mechanisms—allowing configuration management to scale to automate enterprise-class infrastructure.
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