In spite of being publicly sceptical of cloud computing as a technological concept CFEngine author Mark Burgess announced that CFEngine will support machine and service virtualization within its framework of convergent promises, in order to facilitate the kind of adaptive utility computing that is a …
Following a sustained effort by the programming team at CFEngine AS, CFEngine Nova (the commercial version of CFEngine 3) will run natively on Windows NT platforms (not merely emulated under the Cygwin framework), with first release just into the new year 2010. Support has been added for registry …
New features have been added to the CFEngine development tree, both Community Edition and CFEngine Nova, for list manipulation. The grep() function takes a list and extracts elements that match a given regular expression, returning a sublist. The join() function, which complements the splitstring() …
Mark Burgess Presents at Google By Brendan Strejcek - Mon, 26 Oct 2009 Mark Burgess recently gave a presentation on Promise Theory and CFEngine 3 at Google on his way to LISA 08. Login | Register
Brendan Strejcek talks CFEngine and configuration management with the founders of other open source tools at Open Source Bridge in Portland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybwdt-Ps3Mc
The cover feature of the April 2009 issue of Linux Pro Magazine is a tutorial I wrote for introducing CFEngine 3. You can download the full text of the article in PDF format.
“A Promising Approach to Management” is the subtitle of an essay written by Mark Burgess that develops the philosophy that has made CFEngine a flexible and successful solution for autonomic computer management. But there is more to this essay than a cute jingle. According to its author, …
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