Drive failures are a matter of when, not if. The good news is that most modern drives warn you before they fail, using S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology). The challenge is collecting that data across a fleet and making it actionable. The new inventory-smartctl module …
We’re 60 episodes in, and today we’re getting back to one of the most fundamental tasks in systems management, package management. In this episode we look at three new dnf-related improvements for managing packages on Enterprise Linux (Red Hat, Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux). We walk through the new dnf …
Three notable dnf related improvements making it easier to manage packages on modern Enterprise Linux based systems (Red Hat, Rocky Linux, Alma Linux, etc …) have been merged recently. dnf package module - Manage packages using dnf dnf_group package module - Manage package groups using dnf …
CFEngine 3.24.4+, 3.27.1+, and 3.28.0+ include a change to how findfiles() handles trailing slashes on directory paths. This change restores trailing slashes to directory results, but with improved consistency compared to earlier versions. The new behavior ensures that directory paths always include …
When using CFEngine with the Masterfiles Policy Framework there are two standard “stages” involved in periodic maintenance: update the policy (update.cf) and evaluated the policy (promises.cf). In a standard install the cf-execd component periodically runs first the update policy and …
The standard process for managing that monolithic set, it is a fair amount of git diffing. It’s not hard once you get used to it, but it’s still a lot to do and read. In this episode we take a monolithic CFEngine policy set, the kind most of us have been managing for years in …
We have recently discovered and fixed multiple security issues in CFEngine. These discoveries were made by ethical hackers as a part of our HackerOne bug bounty program. All of these issues can be remediated by upgrading to CFEngine 3.27.0, 3.24.3, 3.21.8, or later versions. We have no indications …
We here at CFEngine have seen the collaboration possibilities with Ansible for a long time. See our many ansible related blog posts including previously where I discussed our promise-type-ansible module which enables you to run ansible playbooks from CFEngine policy. You might ask why you would want …
Today, we are pleased to announce the release of CFEngine 3.27.0! The code word for this release is exploration. This release also marks an important event, the beginning of the 3.27 LTS series, which will be supported for 3 years. Several new features have been added since the release of CFEngine …
Take a fast thing and make it faster. In this Christmas special, Nick and Herman chat about the new built-in profiling support for cf-agent in the upcoming release. The upcoming 3.27 LTS release introduces a first-class profiling capability directly into cf-agent. Unlike previous solutions (like …
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