When you first told me that this change was coming I was astonished because I know that normal order, the normal ordering is very intentional like a lot of thought went into it right and it’s not configurable, again on purpose, right!? In this episode, Nick is joined by long-time CFEngine …
“I came here to chew bubble gum and demo the next LTS. And I’m all out of chewing gum.” Herman joined Cody, Craig and Nick to give a sneak peek of the upcoming CFEngine 3.27 LTS release. Herman shows off some of the new features, including: An AI agent to query your infrastructure …
In these times dominated by ever growing amounts of technology, have you ever considered the power of less? In this very special episode, we celebrate Craig Comstock’s 8-year anniversary with the company! Craig takes us on a journey into the concept of “decomputing” - the idea of …
We recently introduced a new policy function classfilterdata(), which will be available in the next LTS release of CFEngine, version 3.27. If you can’t wait for the release, feel free to grab the latest master non-LTS from our nightly packages. In this blog post, we’ll illustrate how the …
Is 5 minutes of drift too long? Winter is coming, and so is CFEngine support for dealing with immutable files. CFEngine has always been a powerful tool for enforcing configuration and preventing drift. It’s the very essence of its mission to ensure the state of a system remains in line with its …
They say data is the new oil, that makes classfilterdata() the new rig. Check out how Jay Goldberg pumps the Two Sigma data lake with CFEngine. In Episode 51 special guest Jay Goldberg of Two Sigma joined the CFEngine team to discuss data-driven configuration, other examples of data driven policy ( …
“For some reason they’re willing to read a 20-page essay from a chatbot when they would never imagine doing it from a colleague.” For episode 50 Cody, Craig, and Nick are joined by special guests Mark Burgess, progenitor and original creator of CFEngine, Ted Zlatanov, configuration …
Note: this blog post was updated January 29th, 2026 Here comes a profoundly belated blog post on a behavior change. Better late than never. Due to various bugs with the glob engine on Windows, we decided to rewrite it in CFEngine 3.24.0. Not only does the new glob engine resolve these bugs on …
No more default passwords! CFEngine 3.26.0 (“admin”) forces you to create an admin user from scratch. Cody, Craig, and Nick take a look at the latest CFEngine release, 3.26.0, the “admin” release. After showing the new setup process to create an initial privileged user and highlighting …
Today, we are pleased to announce the release of CFEngine 3.26.0! Being a non-LTS (not supported) release, this release allows users to test the new functionality we’ve been working on before it arrives in an LTS release later this year. The codename for this release is a bit different, as it …
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