We are pleased to announce two new patch releases for CFEngine, version 3.24.5 and 3.27.2! These patch releases contain bug fixes and dependency updates. Changes As these are patch releases for long term supported (LTS) branches of CFEngine, there are no new major features included. Complete …
We enjoyed Lars so much last time that we asked him to come back and show off some Ansible work he and Craig have been doing. Lars demoed a hybrid CFEngine + Ansible workflow. Starting with two fresh hosts, he used an CFEngine Ansible Galaxy collection to install and bootstrap CFEngine with a …
You started with Ansible, and for a long time it was the only thing you needed. With a handful of playbooks and an inventory file, you got the job done. However, as the fleet grew, runs went from taking minutes to hours, and parts of the inventory were unreachable at any given moment. This is not an …
For episode 64 Lars demoed leech2 live: the library used to ship container data from CFEngine agents to Mission Portal. The slides he presented from are available as a PDF. Lars showed how you can interact with leech2 through the CLI tool lch(1). The CLI tool is bundled in CFEngine >= 3.28 …
CFEngine 3.29.0 changes how storage promises treat a filesystem that is already mounted. A promise for an unmounted filesystem now mounts only that filesystem instead of all unmounted filesystems, edit_fstab actively maintains the file system table entry to keep it aligned with the promise even when …
Recently, I’ve been playing around with the ansible promise type by Fabio Tranchitella. It’s amazing how easy it is to leverage the benefits of agents with all the existing automation from the ansible community. Hence, I wanted to share it in a blog post, with an emphasis on easy. …
For episode 0b111111 Nick and Craig demo CFEngine 3.28 live: container data in Mission Portal, and classes promises gain more flexibility. In this episode, after learning that 63 is the ASCII code for ?, the atomic number for Europium, and the country code for the Philippines Craig followed up on …
Today, we are pleased to announce the release of CFEngine 3.28.0! The code word for this release is introspection. This is a non-LTS, not supported, feature release, with features which will become part of the next LTS scheduled for summer 2027. What’s new Container introspection In the …
Can an AI agent investigate a compromised host well enough to spot a fake user named Palpatine? Watch me find out the hard way. In this episode, Nick demonstrates a Mission Portal MCP server he’s been building with AI — a real-time demo of using an AI-powered agent to investigate a compromised …
CFEngine is changing how the persistence timer of a class defined by a classes promise is handled when that class is rediscovered on a later run. We consider this a bug fix: classes promises should always have been able to reset the timer, just like classes bodies can. A new timer_policy attribute …
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