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Eystein Maloy Stenberg

The CFEngine Test Suites

When developing a large and flexible software system like CFEngine, it is an unfortunate truth that developers do not always get everything right at the first attempt. The source code is also changing frequently due to new features, optimizations and bug-fixes. As you can see from the Ohloh online …

April 24, 2012

CFEngine 3.3.0 Release Notes

Update [April 12, 2012]: Added information about the new templating engine. Highlights The CFEngine Community 3.3.0 release is here, with the largest set of improvements since the introduction of version 3.0! We have added Virtualization and SQL promises to the open source edition and introduced …

April 11, 2012

CFEngine @ USENIX LISA 2011

The LISA conference, run by the USENIX organization, is the largest conference specifically for system administration today. It has been 25 years in the running, and has been a cultural and professional center for the field of the system administration for most of that time. LISA is a unique haven …

December 13, 2011

CFEngine releases community edition 3.2.0

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. This release includes some major improvements to community users, and forms the foundation for our upcoming commercial …

August 29, 2011

Test Driven System Administration

CFEngine has been at the forefront of innovation in Configuration Management since the start of the 1990s, and CFEngine’s CTO and Founder Mark Burgess has been writing a lot about the history of those ideas as well as the vision of configuration management going forward. CFEngine is not a …

February 3, 2011