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Comparing Ansible and CFEngine
Posted by: Ole Herman Elgesem
Generally speaking, CFEngine and Ansible can be used to solve the same problems, but their approaches are different. In this blog post I’d like to discuss...
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cf-remote is now available via pip
Posted by: Ole Herman Elgesem
cf-remote is a tool for downloading and installing/deploying CFEngine. It automates a lot of the things you have to do before CFEngine is actually installed on...
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Introducing GitHub Discussions for CFEngine
Posted by: Ole Herman Elgesem
We are excited to announce that CFEngine is now using GitHub Discussions. GitHub Discussions is a feature of GitHub repos, and similar to Q&A platforms like...
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How to implement CFEngine custom promise types in bash
Posted by: Aleksei Shpakovskii
This blog post will focus on the bash programming part of implementing a promise type. To understand what custom promise types are, and how to use...
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Custom Promise outcomes in Mission Portal
Posted by: Ihor Aleksandrychiev
CFEngine 3.17.0 introduced custom promise types, which enable CFEngine users to extend core functionality and policy language in a simple way. As an example of the...
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How to serve policy from a local git server
Posted by: Craig Comstock
Several months ago I started the practice of using CFEngine Enterprise and its Mission Portal UI on a daily basis to manage the connected devices in...
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Ansible and CFEngine Scalability White Paper
Posted by: Vratislav Podzimek
Scalability is an important feature of any infrastructure management solution. Either the to-be-managed infrastructure is big already or it is expected to grow as the business...
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CFEngine 2020 Retrospective
Posted by: Ole Herman Elgesem
2020 is nearly over, and we’d like to take a couple of minutes to reflect on our year as well as provide a sneak peek into...
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How to implement CFEngine Custom Promise Types in Python
Posted by: Ole Herman Elgesem
This tutorial focuses on how to write a promise module, implementing a new CFEngine promise type. It assumes you already know how to install promise modules...
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Introducing CFEngine Custom Promise Types
Posted by: Ole Herman Elgesem
In CFEngine 3.17, custom promise types were introduced. This allows you to extend policy language, managing resources which don’t have built in promise types. The implementation...
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