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CFEngine 3.7.6 released!

We’re happy to announce that CFEngine 3.7.6 is released! With 3.7 being a stable LTS branch, 3.7.6 brings bug fixes and stability enhancements to the CFEngine customers and community. Looking at the CFEngine release schedule, we can see: 3.7 LTS is maintained (and supported for enterprise …

Posted by Nick Anderson
September 13, 2017

Security Through Automation

Today’s approach to securing IT infrastructure is passé. In a dynamic world of unpredictable and often frequent infrastructure changes, the traditional approach to security falls short. It is no longer sufficient to just scan frequently for vulnerabilities and then try to interpret this data …

Posted by Thomas Ryd
August 16, 2017

Discovering SSL Certificates and Expirations

With more and more services using SSL keeping track of the certificates in use across a global infrastructure can be challenging. The inventory reporting features in CFEngine Enterprise can be useful in identifying services using SSL as well as when their certificates will expire. cf-monitord …

Posted by Nick Anderson
June 19, 2017

3.11.0 Beta ready for testing!

We’re happy to announce that CFEngine 3.11.0 Beta (non-LTS) is now ready. Thanks to everyone for all of the contributions! Please test extensively and submit bug reports. 3.11.x introduces some new features and deprecates some underutilized functionality. Please note that 3.11.0 will be a …

Posted by Nick Anderson
June 14, 2017

Config Management Camp Gent 2017: Recap

Last week we attended Config Management Camp in Gent Belgium. How did automation start? In the beginning Mark split light from dark… There were 7 talks in the CFEngine devroom. Christian Linden kicked things off with his presentation “Get set for getting work done by CFEngine”. He …

Posted by Nick Anderson
February 17, 2017