How can I run my own bundles automatically, like autorun from the MPF (Masterfiles Policy Framework), but with different logic?
Cody Valle (Head of community), Criag Comstock (Digger), Ole Herman Elgesem (Product Manager) and Nick Anderson (Doer of Things) review the existing capabilities and limitations of autorun in the MPF. After reaching the limits offered by the stock framework they explore implementing a custom autorun, for example recursively finding policy files or only including policy files with associated enablement classes.
Interested in seeing what’s around the corner in CFEngine Enterprise?
Herman (Product Manager) walks us through the features that we will find in the upcoming release of CFEngine 3.20. Being a non-LTS release, it’s a great opportunity to try out new features and get your feedback in before our next LTS series.
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Interested in extending the CFEngine DSL to support your own custom promise types?
Herman (Product Manager) walks us through implementing custom promise type in python.
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Looking to be more efficient writing CFEngine policy?
Nick Anderson (Doer of Things) walks us through setting up Spacemacs for CFEngine. Get syntax highlighting, on the fly error checking, function prototypes, integration with the venerable org-mode and more!
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A recent change in the Masterfiles Policy Framework (MPF) is renaming bundle agent main to bundle agent mpf_main.
This change is intended to make it easier to run individual parts of your policy leveraging the library main bundle functionality (bundle agent __main__).
Library main bundles were first introduced in CFEngine 3.12.0. The functionality allows for the definition of bundle agent __main__. When this bundle definition is present in the policy entry (the first policy file that CFEngine reads) the bundle is understood to be used as the default bundlesequence.
Looking to be more efficient writing CFEngine policy?
Michael Bolen (Founder, CISOfy and author of Lynis) gives us some history on Lynis (including how to pronounce it, spoiler it’s “lee nus”). Nick Anderson (Doer of Things, Northern.tech) shows off reporting Lynis scan findings with CFEngine Enterprise and the lynis CFEngine build module.
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rxdirs has provided a convenient default when setting permissions recursively. When enabled (the default prior to version 3.20.0) a promise to grant read access on a directory is extended to also include execution since quite commonly if you want to read a directory you also want to be able to list the files in the directory. However, the convenience comes with the cost of complicating security reviews since the state requested on the surface is more strict than what is actually granted. This can both undermine the understanding of the desired state of the permissions as well as confidence that the policy accurately describes the resulting state and we have decided the convenience is not worth the cost.
The CFEngine engineering team has recently discovered two security issues in the CFEngine Enterprise product, specifically in the hub package:
CVE-2021-44215 - PostgreSQL log file world readable. CVE-2021-44216 - Apache and Mission Portal Application log files world readable. CVE-2021-44215 is a regression affecting currently supported versions 3.18.0 and 3.15.4 as well as some unsupported versions. CVE-2021-44216 affects all supported versions prior to 3.18.1 and 3.15.5 as well as some unsupported versions.
Interested in the efforts underway to make CFEngine manage the environment even faster?
Vratislav (Software Engineer) joins the show to talk about cf-reactor
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I re-stumbled across this mailing list post from Bryan Burke about some policy framework upgrade issues where he also asked about hooking in and customizing the update policy. I thought this sounded like a good opportunity for an example using a cfbs module. So, let’s take a look at making a cfbs module for a custom update policy.
As mentioned in the thread there are just a couple of things you need to do in order to hook in and customize the behavior of the update policy.
