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Measuring values extracted from a running log
Posted by: Nick Anderson
Recently I wanted to start measuring the length of time it took for PostgreSQL to acquire a lock so that I could keep an eye on...
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CFEngine 3.12.2-3, 3.14.0-2 released (mitigating CVE-2019-10164)
Posted by: Nick Anderson
On we released new builds of our Enterprise Hub packages for
3.12.2 and 3.14.0. This release addresses CVE-2019-10164.
PostgreSQL versions 10.x before 10.9 and versions 11.x...
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CFEngine 3.14.0 released
Posted by: Nils Christian Roscher-Nielsen
Today we are very proud and happy to launch our latest non-supported release, CFEngine 3.14.0.
3.14 is a great number, being the closest we will get to...
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Writing custom service_methods
Posted by: Nick Anderson
This post has been re-published with permission.
CFEngine provides the services promise type to manage the state of a given service. services type promises are an abstraction...
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CVE-2019-9929 – internal authentication secrets leaked in logs
Posted by: Vratislav Podzimek
Description
The CFEngine engineering team has recently discovered a severe security issue in the CFEngine Enterprise product. CFEngine is using some internal secrets for authentication to the...
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CFEngine 3.12.2 LTS Released
Posted by: Nils Christian Roscher-Nielsen
We are happy to release the 2nd update to the CFEngine 3.12 LTS series. This update comes with many important stability and performance improvements and is...
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How can I execute a command that uses command substitution in CFEngine?
Posted by: Nick Anderson
This was originally published here, it has been re-published with permission.
How can I execute a command that uses command substitution in CFEngine?
On the console I might...
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CFEngine 3.10.6 LTS Released
Posted by: Nils Christian Roscher-Nielsen
We are now happy to release the 6th update to the CFEngine 3.10 LTS series. This update comes with many important stability and performance improvements and...
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Introducing cf-remote: Tooling to deploy CFEngine
Posted by: Ole Herman Elgesem
About a year ago, I wrote a small python script to automate installing and bootstrapping CFEngine on virtual machines in AWS. It had some hard coded...
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Using cf-runagent as non-root
Posted by: Ole Herman Elgesem
cf-runagent is a component for triggering remote agent runs using the CFEngine network protocol. It does not allow for arbitrary commands to be executed, but rather...
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