CFEngine can be confusing and frustrating for new users. I'll try to offer you a condensed and easy to follow procedure, including the EFL addon.

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Sometimes you want to audit a host without changing it. This can be hard with CFEngine, but with EFL and Delta Reporting it's possible.

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It's a dirty secret that few test their CFEngine policies, and fewer still test them well. Now EFL has two bundles for testing that produce TAP output.

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Take confidence that EFL is tested with each change and against each new CFEngine release. We have more than 170 tests. Have confidence in using EFL in your production environment.

Good news everyone. CFEngine 3.7 has revamped packages promises making them simpler and more reliable. These new promises are now used in EFL with the bundle efl_packages_new. The bundle's parameter file looks like this:

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