Traditionally, CFEngine policy sets are managed as a whole. When upgrading the Masterfiles Policy Framework (MPF)1 users must download the new version of the policy framework and integrate it into the existing policy set, carefully diffing the vendored policy files against their currently integrated …
Been a CFEngine user for a while? Have you migrated to a cfbs managed policy set yet?
Live from the Northern.tech Summit in Castell de Sant Mori1! Cody, Craig and Nick walk through the process of migrating a policy set to cfbs management. Go through the process yourself following the detailed …
Tired of hand crafting policy and arguing with people about spacing and alignment? Longing for regularity and easier scanning of your policy no matter who wrote it?
Cody, Craig and Nick wrap up the second year of The agent is in with Miek Gieben, CFEngine Community user and author of cffmt, a …
We are pleased to announce two new patch releases for CFEngine, version 3.18.4 and 3.21.1! These releases only contain security fixes for our recently discovered vulnerability; CVE-2023-26560.
Changelogs As always, you can see a full list of changes and improvements in our changelogs:
3.18.4 …
We are writing to inform you about a security issue that was discovered in CFEngine 3.6.0 and later versions. Our development team found the vulnerability relating to inadequate access control / unauthorized access to system files. MITRE assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2023-26560. We have no …
Having a list of software that is allowed to be installed on a host is a strategy to prevent and fix security gaps and maintain compliance with operational guidelines. This zero-trust methodology ensures that only explicitly permitted applications are allowed to be present on a host unlike package …
Can you trust the integrity of your base operating system runtime?
Jason Rogers and Dr. Wesley Peck of Invary join Cody, Craig and Nick to chat about their Runtime Integrity technology. They discuss the challenges of Trust, Information Technology Knowledge Management, and how Invary fits in the …
Opening and reading files may cause your program to block indefinitely. In this blogpost we'll discuss how to work around this issue.
In February, our team attended both FOSDEM and CfgMgmtCamp (Configuration Management Camp) in Belgium. At CfgMgmtCamp we held several talks, and we'll upload some of the recordings.
Have a burning desire to run sshd or another service on your VR headset?
Cody, Craig and Nick do time-boxed live hackathon working on developing CFEngine services promise type support for Termux. Watch Nick and Craig race to implement basic services support before the timer buzzes.
Video The video …