Configuration Management Camp in Ghent, Belgium is coming up, and CFEngine is of course going there! This year we’ll be sending two of CFEngine’s core developers, Dimitrios Apostolou and myself, Kristian Amlie. Our currently planned talks for the event are: How to securely deploy …
It’s sometimes difficult to maintain an overview over what issues matter most to the CFEngine community. Unfortunately our bug tracker, Redmine, has very poor support for letting the developers know what issues are important to the users, and prioritize according to this. So lately we have …
CFEngine 3.6.3 is released! The new version brings broader platform support, UI performance and usability enhancements as well as bugfixes. It has again been about 8 weeks since the last release, and we are planning to further shorten the release intervals going forward to bring you enhancements …
Hearing a user speak is worth more than self-glorification! As we come up to year-end, it is time to start thinking about turkeys (well if you celebrate Thanksgiving like they do out here), and of course Christmas and the festive season it heralds. In this blog post I would like to thank a …
Please nominate your favorite! The CFEngine Champion program rewards the voluntary efforts of individuals who have significantly enhanced the CFEngine Community by promoting CFEngine and its use. The contributions of the CFEngine Community are a vital part of our company’s ecosystem. View …
Thanks to Mike Svoboda at Linkedin and a league of experienced CFEngine users, we are happy to announce the “CFEngine Office Hour”. Meet with CFEngine folks, bring your questions! Here is what to expect: “Instead of lecturing about how we’ve used CFEngine, the focus of this …
In this blog post I would like to show how one of the best configuration management solutions integrates with an equally well known ticketing system - Jira. When a specific policy becomes out of compliance, there is a common need to integrate this with a ticketing system. For example, you have an …
Dear CFEngine Community, we are proud to announce our new mailing list: dev-cfengine. Given that the contributions in both Core and Masterfiles repositories have been steadily increasing, the need for such a list became apparent. While patch submissions and code reviews will still be taking place …
This post clarifies whether CFEngine is affected by the newly published vulnerability in the SSL protocol, POODLE. CFEngine core functionality, i.e. agent-to-hub communication is not affected in any way by the POODLE vulnerability. If the protocol version is set to “classic” or …
CFEngine recently released version 3.6, which makes deploying and using cfengine easier than ever before. The greatest improvement in 3.6, in my opinion, is by far the autorun feature. I’m going to demonstrate how to get a policy server set up with autorun properly configured. Installing …
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