Blog - CFEngine

17 Jan 2019

From black box magic to automation transparency

Posted by: Thomas Ryd

The CFEngine policy analyzer is an awesome new service introduced in CFEngine 3.13. The policy analyzer allows you to quickly debug policies and inspect what is...

17 Dec 2018

Hacking custom variables for additional augments in CFEngine

Posted by: Nick Anderson

This post was syndicated with permission from the original source. CFEngine 3.12.0 introduced the augments key to the Augments file format. If you are not...

30 Nov 2018

CFEngine 3.12.1 LTS Released

Posted by: Nils Christian Roscher-Nielsen

CFEngine 3.12.1 LTS has now been released. This release brings many stability and performance improvements to the 3.12 LTS series. It is a stable and well-tested...

23 Nov 2018

CFEngine 3.13.0 released

Posted by: Nils Christian Roscher-Nielsen

Today we are very happy to announce the release of CFEngine 3.13.0. This is a non-LTS release, introducing new features and functionality. There is a lot happening...

19 Nov 2018

Three high level patterns in CFEngine

Posted by: Nick Anderson

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16 Nov 2018

CFEngine LTS 3.10.5 released

Posted by: Nils Christian Roscher-Nielsen

Today we are very happy to announce the maintenance release of CFEngine 3.10.5. This is an update to the LTS 3.10 series, adding improved stability, several...

20 Sep 2018

missing_ok and multiple augments in 3.12.0

Posted by: Bas Van der Vlies

At SURFsara we use CFEngine on our National Compute Cluster (LISA) and other systems as our configuration management tool. With the release of CFEngine 3.12 I...

29 Aug 2018

Restricting CFEngine to one CPU core using Systemd

Posted by: Ole Herman Elgesem

In some performance critical situations, it makes sense to limit management software to a single CPU (core). We can do this using systemd and cgroups. CFEngine...

28 Jun 2018

CFEngine 3.12.0 LTS Released

Posted by: Nils Christian Roscher-Nielsen

Today we are happy to announce the general availability of CFEngine 3.12.0 LTS! This release has a lot of new features, and we are very excited about...

8 May 2018

CFEngine 3.12.0 LTS beta released!

Posted by: Nils Christian Roscher-Nielsen

Today we are happy to announce the general availability of CFEngine 3.12.0 LTS beta. The release of 3.12.0 beta took longer than expected. As a result we...