With the release of build.cfengine.com, I have been working to migrate some of our own security related policy into modules of their own. CFEngine Build and the cfbs tooling allows us to organize policy into modules, which are easy to update independently and share with other users. Let’s take …
Have you ever wondered how a site was designed and how the ideas were conceptualized into the final result? If your answer is yes, you are in the right place! In this post, I will show you our journey to create our latest website, CFEngine Build. From start to finish, how did we do the design and …
Earlier this year, we hinted at what we were working on - a place for users to find and share reusable modules for CFEngine. Today, the CFEngine team is pleased to announce the launch of CFEngine Build: The new website, build.cfengine.com, allows you to browse for modules, and gives you information …
Still interested in running CFEngine on IoT? Craig (Digger) shows building CFEngine Enterprise for Yocto and deploys a Raspberry Pi Zero with a sensor to measure the height of Nick’s (Doer of Things) desk. Video The video recording is available on YouTube: At the end of every webinar, we stop …
The CFEngine engineering team has recently discovered two security issues in the CFEngine Enterprise product: CVE-2021-38379 - Publicly available exported reports CVE-2021-36756 - Certificate not checked in Federated Reporting While the latter one (CVE-2021-36756) only affects CFEngine Enterprise …
When working with CFEngine, it’s common to hear advice about separating data from policy. Separating data from policy allows for separation of concerns, delegation of responsibilities and integration with other tooling. Each organization is different, and a strategy that works well in one …
CFEngine is well suited for use in IoT environments due to its portability, size, and performance. There already exists a meta layer for including the CFEngine community client and Masterfiles Policy Framework in Yocto Project builds. This enables developing policy to: ensure a service stays running …
CFEngine and Ansible are two complementary infrastructure management tools that both work with so-called inventories. However, the common term can be quite confusing because the way they are defined and created is very different for an Ansible Inventory and for a CFEngine Inventory. In the most …
Interested in running CFEngine for IoT? Craig (Digger) shows building CFEngine for Yocto. Video The video recording is available on YouTube: At the end of every webinar, we stop the recording for a nice and relaxed, off-the-record chat with attendees. Join the next webinar to not miss this …
Manually managing groups on a large infrastructure can be a tedious task, and is therefore best suited through automation software like CFEngine. Unfortunately - at time of writing - CFEngine does not have any built-in promise types for managing groups. But fear not; in CFEngine 3.17, custom promise …
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