A couple of days ago we informed you of the status of the CFEngine products and services with respect to Heartbleed. Today we would like to share with you some instructions and policies that you can use to check your systems for vulnerable versions of OpenSSL, and if needed upgrade it to its latest …
CFEngine is a proud sponsor of the Red Hat Summit next week in downtown San Francisco! If you are attending the event, be sure to visit us at Booth #116 to say hello and learn more about new features of CFEngine 3.6 as well as get special discounts for our upcoming user conference, Promise2014. You …
As you may know, a serious vulnerability was recently announced in OpenSSL, commonly referred to as Heartbleed or more officially by its CVE ID CVE-2014-0160. This vulnerability affects the OpenSSL heartbeat mechanism and allows unauthorized access to private data including encryption keys, …
We’re proud to release the first Beta package of CFEngine 3.6 to the Community for testing. The new version of CFEngine introduces a huge number of new features to the CFEngine language and a lot of improvements behind the scene. Some highlights from the ChangeLog file: - New promise type …
Having joined CFEngine only a few months ago (and being new to the Open Source movement and culture), attending our Bay Area meetup allowed me to come face to face with our community and hear about CFEngine deployment from the people who use it as their main tool. And let me tell you, there are some …
Many users have been asking for ways to limit the amount of some function invocations in CFEngine, in particular functions such as execresult and returnszero. First, let me try to explain why functions were called so many times to begin with, and how we have approached this for version 3.6. …
CFEngine 3.5.3 is now available for download. This is a maintenance release of CFEngine 3.5, and introduces a number of fixes and improvements to both Community and Enterprise editions. Changes in the CFEngine Core: Improved security checks of symlink ownership. A symlink created by a user pointing …
sigurd.teigen@cfengine.com R&D, CFEngine CFEngine has previously had multiple ways of loading data from an external file into a policy. This has been useful for basing policy on tabular data. For example, importing a CSV file to create accounts. Once data has been imported, it may be used using …
Mahesh Kumar, VP Marketing CFEngine mahesh.kumar@cfengine.com This month (literally tomorrow) at Velocity 2013 London Khushil Dep of the MailOnline will address the conference and present how his firm leverages CFEngine for their infrastructure management needs. As Khushil puts it “At the …
Mahesh Kumar, VP Marketing CFEngine mahesh.kumar@cfengine.com The CFEngine team was at LISA 2013 in Washington, D.C. this past week. It was the perfect setting, the weather playing nice, and having some of the sharpest minds talking about their accomplishments in the large installation system …
Sign up for CFEngine Enterprise and connect up to 25 hosts for free. No credit card required. Get started in minutes.
Try enterprise for free
