Jarle Bjorgeengen of the University of Oslo did a laboratory study showing the efficiency merits of CFEngine. The report is available to USENIX members in their ;login: magazine. Resource efficiency is a huge factor when talking about virtualization and configuration management in elastic Cloud …
Mark Burgess was interviewed (with a sore throat) on FLOSS weekly.
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A new feature in the CFEngine Community Core is attracting some interest from system administrators. It is the simplest of ideas, but then such ideas are often the best.
Following CTO Mark Burgess’ recent blog with Carolyn Rowland on the Business Value of System Administration, this new …
Regular training sessions are now available directly from CFEngine in Florida.
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Following the development of the community standard library, CFEngine has now released a conversion utility that transforms existing CFEngine 2 policies into a basic CFEngine 3 format. The output can be run in either the Community Edition, CFEngine Nova or any other version of CFEngine going …
Neil Watson has generously made some Vim plugins available for CFEngine 3.
Abbreviations and other help for CFEngine 3 files CFEngine 3 syntax highlighting
Aleksey Tsalolikhin has written a helpful blog post introducing CFEngine 3.
Read the full article.
CFEngine is built on promises. Promises were chosen as the model for CFEngine’s configuration language, because they represent an expression of intention. But expressing your exact intentions in a safe and convergent way (according to the standards you expect from CFEngine) can sometimes be …
CFEngine began in the early part of 1993. It was the first Open Source configuration management tool and quickly became an internationally used tool. Since then, CFEngine has been reinvented several times through our commitment to basic research, and today CFEngine is installed on over a million …
Over the last few months the CFEngine AS development team has added better integration for CFEngine Nova with windows (without need of Cygwin). The most recent development is support for Windows event logs. Event logs are the Windows counterpart to syslog from Unix. The main difference is that event …