This post was syndicated with permission from the original source. How do you deal with config files that need different settings based on various services that are running on a host and cooperate with other teams? It’s a common question, and it came up in #cfengine on libera.chat recently. …
We’re happy to announce that CFEngine 3.7.6 is released! With 3.7 being a stable LTS branch, 3.7.6 brings bug fixes and stability enhancements to the CFEngine customers and community. Looking at the CFEngine release schedule, we can see: 3.7 LTS is maintained (and supported for enterprise …
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 will expire. cf-monitord …
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 be a …
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. How did automation start? In the beginning Mark split light from dark… 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 …
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 Neil Watson Eystein Stenberg Nick Anderson The general …
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 (multidisciplinary) sysadmin, with a focus on automation, …
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 working. I added the following to my dotspacemacs/user-init. (defcustom …
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 conference serves the …
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