With more and more services using SSL keeping track of the certificates in use across a global infrastructure can be challenging. The inventory reporting features in CFEngine Enterprise can be useful in identifying services using SSL as well as when their certificates …
We’re happy to announce that CFEngine 3.11.0 Beta (non-LTS) is now ready. Thanks to everyone for all of the contributions! Please test extensively and submit bug reports. 3.11.x introduces some new features and deprecates some underutilized functionality. Please note that 3.11.0 will …
We’re happy to announce maintenance releases for both supported CFEngine release branches today! Being maintenance (aka patch) releases, the goal is to increase stability and reliability for CFEngine users and enable a safe upgrade-path. As such, the releases primarily include bugfixes and …
Last week we attended Config Management Camp in Gent Belgium. There were 7 talks in the CFEngine devroom. Christian Linden kicked things off with his presentation “Get set for getting work done by CFEngine“. He covered the basics of what you need to …
The notes from the Q4 2016 meeting can be found in the github repository. This meeting marks 2 years for the Community Advisory Board. As a reminder the current board members include: Bas van der Vlies Jonathan Clarke Mike Svoboda Ted Zlatanov …
This interview was conducted by Aleksey Tsalolikhin / 3 Aug 2016 Q: What can you tell our readers about yourself? How did you start using CFEngine? A: I am a Spanish sysadmin living and working in The Netherlands (Dutch spouse). All round …
A few months ago I posted a link on the help list to the CFEngine layer for spacemacs. Since then I have learned there are a few other org-mode users so I wanted to share how I got cfengine3 src blocks execution …
This post was authored by Aleksey Tsalolikhin and has been re-published with his consent. I recently spoke at Digital Media Educators Conference (DMEC) on Infrastructure Management at Scale and the skills educators need to impart to up and coming system administrators. This …
By now you have probably heard about the Badlock vulnerability (CVE-2016-2118)in DCE/RPC-based SAMR and LSA protocols used in the Microsoft Windows ActiveDirectory infrastructure as well as other critical security flows in Samba. With CFEngine Enterprise you can simply tag any variable or …
Each year we like to take a moment to recognize outstanding community members for their contributions. Contributions come in the form of code contributions to core, organizing community meet-ups, giving talks about CFEngine at conferences, sharing policy, to helping other users on …