The CFEngine lab has been brewing on 3.6.4 over Christmas and is finally ready to release it to the world! With 3.6.4 being a patch release, it has a focus on stability and reliability of both the server and agent side. This is also the first release where user input has been incorporated in form of …
CFEngine 3.6.3 is released! The new version brings broader platform support, UI performance and usability enhancements as well as bugfixes. It has again been about 8 weeks since the last release, and we are planning to further shorten the release intervals going forward to bring you enhancements …
In this blog post I would like to show how one of the best configuration management solutions integrates with an equally well known ticketing system - Jira. When a specific policy becomes out of compliance, there is a common need to integrate this with a ticketing system. For example, you have an …
CFEngine 3.6.2 is now available - in both Community and Enterprise editions! There are major new features in the Enterprise hub; High Availability and Custom actions. In addition, we have resolved numerous issues to provide you with a very stable release. It has been about 8 weeks since the 3.6.1 …
This blog is the result of joint technology collaboration between Arista Networks and CFEngine Inc.
Introduction It is an accepted fact that the disciplines of system administration and network administration are traditionally very disjoint: different teams, different knowledge, different tools and …
Inventory management in 3.6, part 1 - Showing variables and classes CFEngine 3.6 introduces a set of features for inventory management, and we’ll have a closer look at one of them today. This feature is part of both the Community and Enterprise editions. It essentially outputs the inventory in …
eystein.maloy.stenberg@cfengine.com Product Management, CFEngine Introduction The beauty and power of Docker comes from its ability to containerize any application into a portable self-sufficient entity, one that can run anywhere. This enables developers to deliver an application with all …
The CFEngine team is excited to present - CFEngine Week in New York City, October 14-18!
During that week we will be out in force in the Big Apple. Come meet us in one of the many events we are organizing or sponsoring:
Velocity Conference, Oct 14-16: Most companies with outward-facing dynamic …
Every year, on the last Friday of July, we pause for a moment and think about the impact of system administrators on our world. It is hard to imagine how different our life would be if it was not for the sysadmin. The goal of the Annual SysAdmin Appreciation Day is to make us all think about that …
Bruce Carleton is the organizer of the San Francisco CFEngine User Group. He has a deep understanding of system administration for distributed systems and how to make it easy (and fun!) to use CFEngine for that. He sent a message to the user group email list, that we want to share with you:
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