We’re happy to announce that CFEngine 3.10.0 LTS now is released! One of the key advantages of CFEngine is its unparalleled performance, and this has received further attention in 3.10.0! A big thanks to everyone testing the 3.10.0 beta release! Being an LTS release, 3.10 will be supported …
The notes from the Q4 2016 meeting can be found in the github repository.
This meeting marks 2 years for the Community Advisory Board. As a reminder the current board members include:
Bas van der Vlies Jonathan Clarke Mike Svoboda Ted Zlatanov Neil Watson Eystein Stenberg Nick Anderson The general …
We’re happy to announce that CFEngine 3.10.0 LTS beta is now ready for testing! The established CFEngine release schedule shows that the 3.10.0 final version is due in December 2016, so it is time to test and fix any remaining issues! Being an LTS release, 3.10 will be supported until December …
Introduction The policy update procedure in the masterfiles policy framework is fairly straightforward - copy all files matching $(update_def.input_name_patterns) from hub’s $(sys.masterdir) directory to clients $(sys.inputdir) directory. Copying everything everywhere and then use some …
This interview was conducted by Aleksey Tsalolikhin / 3 Aug 2016 Q: What can you tell our readers about yourself? How did you start using CFEngine? A: I am a Spanish sysadmin living and working in The Netherlands (Dutch spouse). All round (multidisciplinary) sysadmin, with a focus on automation, …
A few months ago I posted a link on the help list to the CFEngine layer for spacemacs. Since then I have learned there are a few other org-mode users so I wanted to share how I got cfengine3 src blocks execution working. I added the following to my dotspacemacs/user-init.
(defcustom …
This post was authored by Aleksey Tsalolikhin and has been re-published with his consent. I recently spoke at Digital Media Educators Conference (DMEC) on Infrastructure Management at Scale and the skills educators need to impart to up and coming system administrators. This conference serves the …
We’re happy to announce maintenance releases for both supported CFEngine release branches today! Being maintenance (aka patch) releases, the goal is to increase stability and reliability for CFEngine users and enable a safe upgrade-path. As such, the releases primarily include bugfixes and …
We’re happy to announce that CFEngine 3.9.0 non-LTS now is released! A big thanks to everyone testing the 3.9.0 beta release! Please note that this is a non-LTS release, which means that it is maintained for 6 months from the release date and not supported for CFEngine Enterprise customers …
As someone responsible for IT operations, you have probably spent most of your time thinking of ways to improve your team’s effectiveness and efficiency to make it more competitive. At CFEngine, we have witnessed the management of IT infrastructure and organizations operating across the …