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Mahesh Kumar

LinuxCon 2012 Presentation by Diego

We will be holding some sessions at LinuxCon in San Diego this summer and will be very happy to see you there! We just got a 15% off coupon to give away, but you need to act fast - it is good for the first 10 attendees and then it expires. The code is LFSD12345 - use it when you register for …

Posted by Mahesh Kumar
June 22, 2012

Meet the CFEngine Team - Diego Zamboni

Hello - my name is Diego Zamboni, and I am very happy to have this opportunity to introduce myself. If you read the CFEngine forums, you have probably seen me around, but it’s nice to be able to step away from official business for a moment and just tell you about myself. I work for CFEngine …

Posted by Mahesh Kumar
March 19, 2012

NEW! CFEngine 3 Nova Evaluation Program

CFEngine is happy to see increased demand for our software, both the Open Source version, CFEngine Community, and the Enterprise Software version, CFEngine 3 Nova. We recently moved the CFEngine Community source code to GitHub and plan to use that platform to interact more closely with the general …

Posted by Mahesh Kumar
March 19, 2012

CFEngine is now on GitHub

We are extremely happy to announce that the source code for CFEngine Community is now hosted on GitHub, one of the largest code-hosting services in the world. This move has many important advantages for both the CFEngine development team and for users. For one, it marks the switch from subversion …

Posted by Mahesh Kumar
March 19, 2012

REST API for Nova

One feature our customers have requested for the next version of CFEngine Nova (available before summer 2012) is having the ability to collect reported data through a REST API. It is already possible to get at reporting data through the Mission Portal web-interface, as well as the command-line …

Posted by Mahesh Kumar
February 20, 2012

Now in Beta: New CFEngine 3 Policy Wizard

At Tuesday night’s CFEngine Meet-the-Team BoF session at LISA, Joe Netzel, one of CFEngine’s talented Systems Engineers, showed off a small app that he has been building in his spare time to help new users become more comfortable developing their own CFEngine policies. In Joe’s …

Posted by Mahesh Kumar
December 8, 2011

New Book: CFEngine 3 Beginner's Guide

***Editor’s Note: Packt Publishing has just come out with a new title, “The CFEngine 3 Beginner’s Guide”. In this guest blog, the book’s author, Rajneesh, gives an overview of the subject, his motivations, and its intended audience. * The publisher kindly offers blog …

Posted by Mahesh Kumar
December 2, 2011

Is CFEngine "Just an Academic Project"?

It has become common recently to refer to CFEngine on the web as an “academic” project. Turns out, though, that this phrase turns out to mean quite different things depending on who’s using it, and sometimes it doesn’t really mean anything at all. For CFEngine users, the …

Posted by Mahesh Kumar
May 23, 2010

U.S. Navy Onboard with CFEngine

The US Defense Department’s principal operational processing center for automated numerical meteorological and oceanographic analyses and predictions FNMOC chooses CFEngine Nova as the solution for their Meteorology and Oceanography Center, ensuring reliable weather reports for the US fleet. …

Posted by Mahesh Kumar
May 7, 2010