Looking to be more efficient writing CFEngine policy? Nick Anderson (Doer of Things) walks us through setting up Spacemacs for CFEngine. Get syntax highlighting, on the fly error checking, function prototypes, integration with the venerable org-mode and more! Video The video recording is available …
In the upcoming CFEngine 3.20 release we are making a change in the behaviour of the create attribute for the files promises that manage the entire content of a file. This includes promises with the template methods mustache, inline_mustache and cfengine; as well as promises with the content …
A recent change in the Masterfiles Policy Framework (MPF) is renaming bundle agent main to bundle agent mpf_main. This change is intended to make it easier to run individual parts of your policy leveraging the library main bundle functionality (bundle agent __main__). Library main bundles were first …
The CFEngine team is pleased to announce a competition for students in Norway. We want you to write a module in Python, and submit it to CFEngine Build. Your module will be Open Source (MIT License), available for our community of users worldwide. CFEngine is a programming language, and modules can …
Databases are great for data processing and storage. However, in many cases it is better or easier to work with data in files on a file system, some tools even cannot access the data in any other way. When a database (DB) is created in a database management system (DBMS) using a file system as its …
Looking to be more efficient writing CFEngine policy? Michael Bolen (Founder, CISOfy and author of Lynis) gives us some history on Lynis (including how to pronounce it, spoiler it’s “lee nus”). Nick Anderson (Doer of Things, Northern.tech) shows off reporting Lynis scan findings …
In this blog post we show how it is possible to run an arbitrary program, script, or execute arbitrary code in reaction to changes and generally events in a PostgreSQL database. Triggers Database management systems (DBMS) provide mechanisms for defining reactions to certain actions or, in other …
rxdirs has provided a convenient default when setting permissions recursively. When enabled (the default prior to version 3.20.0) a promise to grant read access on a directory is extended to also include execution since quite commonly if you want to read a directory you also want to be able to list …
Saint Patrick’s Day makes us think of the color green. Spring is coming. Plants are starting to sprout amongst the dead grass and leaves from Fall/Winter: Earth Day is just around the corner on April 22nd. This reminds us of our commitment to the environment and ecosystems that surround us. As …
Last year, we launched functionality for users to add policy for reporting data, compliance reports, promise types, and other code as modules. With CFEngine Build, users can manage and update their own policy, the default policy and any additional modules separately. This makes it very easy to …
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