The license of our in-house C utility and compatibility library libntech was recently changed from GPLv3 to Apache License Version 2.0 which makes the library suitable for more projects thanks to the more permissive license. While GPLv3 practically required any project using libntech to be licensed under GPLv3 as well, the Apache License v2.0 allows any open source as well as proprietary software to utilize our utility library, keeping the copyright attributions.
We are pleased to announce two new patch releases for CFEngine, version 3.18.6 and 3.21.3! These patch releases contain bug fixes and dependency updates.
Changelogs As always, you can see a full list of changes and improvements in our changelogs:
3.18.6 Changelog for CFEngine Community 3.18.6 Changelog for CFEngine Enterprise 3.18.6 Changelog for Masterfiles Policy Framework 3.21.3 Changelog for CFEngine Community 3.21.3 Changelog for CFEngine Enterprise 3.21.3 Changelog for Masterfiles Policy Framework Please note that the Enterprise changelogs contain only changes specific to enterprise.
Ever been curious about Docker details or the cruft that has built up and could be cleared out?
Craig, Cody, and Nick chat about some of the work Craig has been doing recently, using Docker in development and CI. Craig shows how to develop policy to inventory various Docker details like image names, counts of dangling images, and reclaimable disk space.
Video The video recording is available on YouTube:
At the end of every webinar, we stop the recording for a nice and relaxed, off-the-record chat with attendees.
Have you been interested in automating the testing of your CFEngine policy?
Cody, Craig and Nick follow up on the Policy Examples episode and dive a bit deeper into testing. Nick walks through some policy and related tests that leverage lib/testing.cf from the Masterfiles Policy Framework and Craig walks through implementing a GitHub Workflow to run the tests in a Docker container for each Pull Request.
Video The video recording is available on YouTube:
This question was covered in The agent is in, Episode 27 - CFEngine Q&A: Policy questions.
Given the following JSON, how can I get a list containing just the values of name?
[ { "name": "Aurora", "description": "Illuminating" }, { "name": "Orion", "description": "Stellar" }, { "name": "Luna", "description": "Serene" }, { "name": "Phoenix", "description": "Resilient" }, { "name": "Atlas", "description": "Strong" } ] Using maparray() The most concise and direct way to achieve something like this is to use the maparray() function.
This question was covered in The agent is in, Episode 27 - CFEngine Q&A: Policy questions.
Testing is an important part of the software life-cycle. Writing tests for your CFEngine policy can help to bring improved assurance that your policy behaves as expected. Follow along and write your first test policy.
Test stages When writing tests there are three or four basic stages that typically need to be handled.
Initialization - Set up the necessary conditions for the test, e.
Unlock the power of CFEngine with expert insights and get your burning policy questions.
Cody, Craig and Nick discuss and answer CFEngine policy questions submitted by users.
Video The video recording is available on YouTube:
At the end of every webinar, we stop the recording for a nice and relaxed, off-the-record chat with attendees. Join the next webinar to not miss this discussion.
Questions These are the questions and policy used during the episode but each question has a separate blog post that goes into more detail.
I was chatting with someone recently about some security maintenance tasks and they were bemoaning that some software updates had turned into a yack shaving1. Updating this required updating that, required updating that on N hosts of varying platforms and flavors. So, they asked me how could they avoid updating a specific package and naturally I said, let’s just prototype some policy.
The incipiency of said yak shaving was updating packages via apt, Debian flavored systems default package manager.
Have you seen what’s new in CFEngine 3.22.0?
Ole Herman Elgesem, CFEngine Product Manager joins Cody, Craig and Nick to give a tour of the changes in recently released CFEngine 3.22.0 Mission Portal. See how filters have been improved and how the new Groups feature makes it easier to affect change across your infrastructure and enforce package compliance with a new module, packages-allowlist-snapshot from CFEngine Build.
Video The video recording is available on YouTube:
Today, we are pleased to announce the release of CFEngine 3.22.0! The focus of this new version has been coordination. This is a non-LTS (non-supported) release, where we introduce new features for users to test and give feedback on, allowing us to polish before the next LTS. (CFEngine 3.24 LTS is scheduled to release summer 2024).
What’s new New host filters The host filter from inventory reports have been upgraded. You can now add rules based on classes, such as linux, windows, redhat, ubuntu, xen, policy_server, cfengine_3_21, ipv4_172_31, etc:
