We’re happy to announce that CFEngine 3.7.0 beta is now ready for testing! The 3.7.0 beta contains a brand new packages promise, enhanced network security, improved Enterprise reporting capabilities and much more! New packages promise A new packages promise has been developed; it reuses the …
Thanks to Nick Anderson and Aleksey Tsalolikhin for feedback and valuable insight. Purpose In this document I will show you how autorun and meta tags will simplify your daily work with CFEngine. There will be no more hard coding of bundles in bundlesequence and you may still run bundles in order by …
As CFEngine continues its evolution and adds to the large number of users with a stake in the future of the project, we have established a Community Advisory Board. The aim of the Community Advisory Board is to advise CFEngine AS and the CFEngine project core committers and team leadership on …
CFEngine’s trust model is based on the secure exchange of keys. This exchange of keys between client and hub, can either happen manually or automatically. Usually this step is automated as a dead-simple “bootstrap” procedure: cf-agent --bootstrap $HUB_IP It is presumed that during …
If you are working for a Fortune 2,000, and hold P&L, or in other ways are responsible for the compensation levels of your SA team and have doubts answering this question, I will argue your operations are not automated, nor will it be competitive in tomorrow’s IT-operations market. The …
We’re happy to announce that CFEngine 3.6.5 is now ready! The new release has improved support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and CentOS 7, as well as other distributions using systemd. In addition, performance of the agent in the Enterprise edition has been greatly improved. Red Hat …
We were pleased to once again be present at this year’s Config Management Camp in Gent, Belgium. Our two representatives, Jimis and Kristian, spent a very informative and rewarding couple of days in the company of many of our community members. The first of our two talks provided some …
Sometimes you need to collect some small amount of data from your hosts and aggregate it to a central location for reporting. For example, you could have a command that returns the status of a hardware check that you run regularly to detect hardware faults. Or you could want a report of all the …
The CFEngine lab has been brewing on 3.6.4 over Christmas and is finally ready to release it to the world! With 3.6.4 being a patch release, it has a focus on stability and reliability of both the server and agent side. This is also the first release where user input has been incorporated in form of …
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