Did you know bundles can have tags too? That’s right! You can tag a bundle by defining tags as a meta promise on a bundle. For example: bundle agent example_bundle_tag { meta: "tags" slist => { "tag_1", "tag_2" }; } You’ve likely encountered bundles tagged with …
We are pleased to announce two new patch releases for CFEngine, version 3.18.8 and 3.21.5! These patch releases contain bug fixes and dependency updates. Changes We’d like to highlight one specific change in behavior, which some users will want to adjust to; Change in behavior - depth_search …
You may see a new warning in the upcoming releases of 3.21.5 and 3.24.0. A new warning was introduced with a fix to the behavior of depth_search when combined with a copy_from source targeting a file: depth_search (recursion) is promised for a base object '<filename>' that is not a …
Did you know you can find variables by name and tag? Like the ability to find currently defined classes (as described in Feature Friday #13: classesmatching()) that match a name or tag, you can find variables by name and tag. It’s a nifty capability. variablesmatching() returns a list of …
Did you know you can find classes by name and tag? classesmatching() dynamically sources information from the current state. For example, let’s say you have classes representing a system’s role. Furthermore, let’s say that we want a host to only have a single role class defined. …
Whether you are migrating from Ansible to CFEngine to gain some of the benefits of scale or autonomy or just need some functionality in an Ansible module, the ansible promise type can be a great tool to utilize. It also provides a compelling alternative to ansible-pull and works around some of the …
Are you familiar with CFEngine’s special variables? Probably you are familiar with sys variables like sys.fqhost (the fully qualified host name) and sys.policy_hub (the IP address of the machine the host is bootstrapped to) but I want to highlight a few other special variables you may not be …
Curious about package management with CFEngine on Windows? After sharing some history on Microsoft’s global advertising campaign for “Where do you want to go today?” Craig shared some of his recent experiments with several windows based package managers as well as their related …
Did you know that CFEngine has namespaces? Let’s see how they can facilitate policy sharing while avoiding “duplicate definitions of bundle” errors. Most of the Masterfiles Policy Framework (MPF) and policy examples for CFEngine use the default namespace. However, body file control …
Found a bug, asking for help? Use cf-support to collect info quickly. cf-support was born from interactions supporting Enterprise customers to streamline data collection and was introduced in late 2022 with the release of 3.18.31 and 3.21.02. Furthermore, it was featured on The Agent is In3 episode …
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