Over three years ago we introduced git and systemd custom promise types. While these are quite functional I recently needed to manage a git repository that was private and so needed a way to authenticate to a git server, in this case gitlab. Gitlab has project access tokens but we didn’t …
Using modules, you can add custom promise types to CFEngine, to manage new resources. In this blog post, I’d like to introduce some of the first official modules, namely git and systemd promise types. They were both written by Fabio Tranchitella, who normally works on our other product, …
I have a setup at home where I keep a local git server running on a Raspberry Pi 3 which contains personal/work journal, dotfiles and a personal policy repository. It was set up manually so before adding a new git repository for a family password store I set about retrofitting the configuration in …
Several months ago I started the practice of using CFEngine Enterprise and its Mission Portal UI on a daily basis to manage the connected devices in my home. To start, I brought up an old desktop machine, cfengine-hub, to use as my hub and downloaded Enterprise, which is free for use up to 25 hosts. …
My laptop was getting stale… I’ve been using it every work day for about 2.5 years now and so much software is installed it just boggles my mind. I really love it otherwise, open source, trying to be transparent, generally has worked amazingly! I have a Librem 15v3 from Purism. My home dir is …
Authored by Remi Bergsma - http://blog.remibergsma.com Back in June, just before I went off for holiday, I attended a CFEngine training in Amsterdam. When I returned from holiday a few weeks later, me and my team started making plans to implement CFEngine in our environment. After two months of hard …
We are extremely happy to announce that the source code for CFEngine Community is now hosted on GitHub, one of the largest code-hosting services in the world. This move has many important advantages for both the CFEngine development team and for users. For one, it marks the switch from subversion …
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