To manage large infrastructures, efficient solutions for both making changes and observing the current state are necessary. As most information (inventory) about hosts is quite predictable and static, there are many opportunities for optimizations in terms of compression and avoiding re-transmission …
We want to bring to your attention a critical security matter recently identified in CFEngine Enterprise version 3.6.0 and subsequent releases. This vulnerability pertains to a A03:2021 - Injection flaw within the CFEngine Enterprise web UI, Mission Portal, which can lead to unauthorized access to …
For CFEngine we manage several public and private repositories of code in GitHub for our Open Source and Enterprise products. In order to ensure quality we run many checks on the code both with nightly builds as well as on each pull request. We use a Jenkins server for nightlies which also includes …
Imagine having the power to identify the exact lines of your CFEngine policy that are slowing down your executions. In this episode, we’ll guide you through the art of profiling CFEngine policy for improved performance. In Episode 30 of “The agent is in,” Nick and team dive into …
The license of our in-house C utility and compatibility library libntech was recently changed from GPLv3 to Apache License Version 2.0 which makes the library suitable for more projects thanks to the more permissive license. While GPLv3 practically required any project using libntech to be licensed …
We are pleased to announce two new patch releases for CFEngine, version 3.18.6 and 3.21.3! These patch releases contain bug fixes and dependency updates. Changelogs As always, you can see a full list of changes and improvements in our changelogs: 3.18.6 Changelog for CFEngine Community 3.18.6 …
Ever been curious about Docker details or the cruft that has built up and could be cleared out? Craig, Cody, and Nick chat about some of the work Craig has been doing recently, using Docker in development and CI. Craig shows how to develop policy to inventory various Docker details like image names, …
Have you been interested in automating the testing of your CFEngine policy? Cody, Craig and Nick follow up on the Policy Examples episode and dive a bit deeper into testing. Nick walks through some policy and related tests that leverage lib/testing.cf from the Masterfiles Policy Framework and Craig …
This question was covered in The agent is in, Episode 27 - CFEngine Q&A: Policy questions. Given the following JSON, how can I get a list containing just the values of name? [ { "name": "Aurora", "description": "Illuminating" }, { "name": "Orion", …
This question was covered in The agent is in, Episode 27 - CFEngine Q&A: Policy questions. Testing is an important part of the software life-cycle. Writing tests for your CFEngine policy can help to bring improved assurance that your policy behaves as expected. Follow along and write your first …
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