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The CFEngine team posts here about upcoming releases, new exciting features and thoughts about configuration management software, configuration management best practices and their own experiences.

CFEngine - The Third Wave of Configuration Management

by Mark Burgess - November 01, 2011

If you have been anywhere near a Unix system in the past ten years, you will almost certainly have heard of CFEngine and its 'revolutionary, self-healing approach' to datacentre automation. However, what you might not know is that its current third incarnation CFEngine 3 is both younger and more advanced than most of its imitators, harnessing the very latest ideas about system management -- and the difference is all about knowledge.

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What's new in CFEngine 3 Nova?

by Mark Burgess - October 25, 2011

Today CFEngine releases the latest version of its commercial enterprise software for configuration management and IT operations.
In addition to all the usual power of scalable and convergent system configuration, Cfengine 3 Nova brings a higher level of information awareness to system administrators at very low cost.

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Untethered, CFEngine hitches a lift on Android

by Mark Burgess - October 11, 2011

Like most successful post-war technologies, the IT innovations that flourish today are those that bring freedom (in the broadest sense) to individuals. From the Italian scooter, to the American refrigerator, or the latest ability to communicate through an almost endless variety of interfaces and models, it is the desire to be set free that drives the commerce of technology.

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Your education is not wasted at CFEngine

by Mark Burgess - October 04, 2011

It is always a surprise to me how many people leave college with the feeling that they learned nothing useful during their time there -- with the attitude that theoretical learning and historical context (what distinguishes a college education from a mere training course) bear no relevance to the "real world". This, of course, is nonsense.

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CFEngine releases community edition 3.2.0

by the editor - August 29, 2011

As the summer draws to a close, CFEngine's core development team has been wrapping up some intense development to bring you version 3.2.0 of the CFE Community Edition.

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