The main points mentioned in the article are: - our code ended up as entangled mess - we don't train our newcomers - we don't use staging environment, and in

The main points mentioned in the article are: - our code ended up as entangled mess - we don't train our newcomers - we don't use staging environment, and instead we deploy directly into production - other teams for configuration management use a deployment tool (a dumb idea in its own right) Nothing of this can be held against CFEngine. The steep learning curve is there only because a newcomer is thrown into a different paradigm of managing systems, which is a similar situation to going functional when all you knew before is imperative programming. Other than that, CFEngine is not really difficult.