Once again DevOpsDays Austin was a fantastic event. This was the DevOpsDays event that I have been to that had two tracks. One track for what I would call traditional DevOpsDays sessions that focused on culture and organizational change, the other with more practical advice on how to get things …
Yesterday, I had an amazing opportunity to participate in the inaugural Internet of Things (IoT) Expo held at Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco. The event was conceived by Jeremy Geelan who is also behind the highly successful Cloud Expo events. The IoT Expo was well attended with many …
In a few days I’ll be flying to Austin to attend DevOpsDays Austin. It was an awesome event last year and CFEngine is proud to be sponsoring the event. I’m looking forward to participating in open space sessions and hearing about the latest challenges, tips and tricks people have to …
We are pleased to announce that CFEngine Founder Mark Burgess will be speaking at the next Silicon Valley DevOps meeting about the future of configuration management. At the meetup you will not only learn about the future of Configuration Management as Mark sees it but also have the chance to …
Inventory management in 3.6, part 1 - Showing variables and classes CFEngine 3.6 introduces a set of features for inventory management, and we’ll have a closer look at one of them today. This feature is part of both the Community and Enterprise editions. It essentially outputs the inventory in …
A couple of days ago we informed you of the status of the CFEngine products and services with respect to Heartbleed. Today we would like to share with you some instructions and policies that you can use to check your systems for vulnerable versions of OpenSSL, and if needed upgrade it to its latest …
CFEngine is a proud sponsor of the Red Hat Summit next week in downtown San Francisco! If you are attending the event, be sure to visit us at Booth #116 to say hello and learn more about new features of CFEngine 3.6 as well as get special discounts for our upcoming user conference, Promise2014.
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As you may know, a serious vulnerability was recently announced in OpenSSL, commonly referred to as Heartbleed or more officially by its CVE ID CVE-2014-0160. This vulnerability affects the OpenSSL heartbeat mechanism and allows unauthorized access to private data including encryption keys, …
The Host Info Report has been available in CFEngine Enterprise for some time, it will now be available to community users in CFEngine 3.6. The Host Info Report is a great way to get value immediately if you are using CFEngine for the first time.
So what does it do? The Host Info Report contains …
Over the next few months we’ll be blogging about some of the great features, enhancements and bug fixes coming in CFEngine 3.6. All too often new software is released without anyone taking the time to tell you what’s been done and why it matters.
To start the series we have a blog post …