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Mahesh Kumar

From The Marketing Corner

Mahesh Kumar, VP Marketing CFEngine @mahesh_CFE mahesh.kumar@cfengine.com Hello Everyone! It is not too often that one gets to join a company with solid fundamentals when it comes to technology and one that finds itself as the change leader in an area that is evolving real-time (DevOps and …

Posted by Mahesh Kumar
October 21, 2013

User promises are coming

A while ago, work was started on a new promise type in CFEngine, the “users” promise type. What it does is make promises about which users are supposed to be present on each host, what login credentials they have, what groups they are part of, and so on. This has traditionally been …

Posted by Mahesh Kumar
October 11, 2013

In Search of Certainty" - The origins of CFEngine

Some software is more opinionated than others. If it ever made sense to anthropomorphize software, the CFEngine agent would be a good candidate. A CFEngine installation is a society of independent agents, each with their own goals, schedules and limited view of the world, individually doing their …

Posted by Mahesh Kumar
September 27, 2013

CFEngine 3.5.2 released

CFEngine 3.5.2 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. New functionality has been included to the SQL builder and the Design Center integration in Mission Portal. …

Posted by Mahesh Kumar
August 30, 2013

CFEngine 3.5.1 released

CFEngine 3.5.1 is now available for download. This is the first maintenance release of CFEngine 3.5, and introduces a number of fixes and improvements to both Community and Enterprise editions. New functionality has been included to the SQL builder and the Design Center integration in Mission …

Posted by Mahesh Kumar
July 10, 2013

Modular cfengine_stdlib.cf

After work and discussion, the CFEngine developer team produced https://github.com/cfengine/core/pull/784 to make libraries/cfengine_stdlib.cf compatible with 3.4.x and older again, to modularize it, and to improve the upgrade experience. These changes will be in the upcoming CFEngine 3.5.1 release: …

Posted by Mahesh Kumar
July 5, 2013

CFEngine Community 3.5 Released

CFEngine 3.5.0 Community Edition is now available for download! At the same time we have updated the CFEngine documentation, which now lives in a new design and information architecture at https://docs.cfengine.com. This latest release of CFEngine Community comes with a ton of improvements and new …

Posted by Mahesh Kumar
June 12, 2013

Windows PowerShell support

Recently support for Windows PowerShell was merged into the Enterprise Windows version of CFEngine. PowerShell is Microsoft’s enhanced shell, intended for more advanced system administration and programming tasks. The change to CFEngine means you can seamlessly use PowerShell in your …

Posted by Mahesh Kumar
May 24, 2013