We are quickly becoming a more software defined world. The music, movie, automotive and telecoms are examples of industries going through disruptiveness due to innovative software defined products. In this new world, IT-operational efficiency has risen to be more critical to businesses than ever. …
My name is Jonathan Thorpe and I recently joined CFEngine to work with the CFEngine community. I’ve spent the past 15 years or so working in several different roles ranging from development, build maintenance, management and finally onto community and customer facing roles. When I got the …
Originally posted by Nick on cmdln.org You never know when the Zombie or Cloud Apocalypse is coming. It’s good to be able to locate those buried bodies quickly and easily. OK, enough bad jokes, but haven’t you ever looked at some CFEngine policy and wondered to yourself, exactly what …
We’re proud to release the first Beta package of CFEngine 3.6 to the Community for testing. The new version of CFEngine introduces a huge number of new features to the CFEngine language and a lot of improvements behind the scene. Some highlights from the ChangeLog file: - New promise type …
Another year has passed and we would like to take a moment to thank the community members for their contributions. From speaking at conferences, epic blog posts, community meet-ups, to support on the CFEngine help list and in the IRC channel, new and veteran users alike don’t have to look far …
Having joined CFEngine only a few months ago (and being new to the Open Source movement and culture), attending our Bay Area meetup allowed me to come face to face with our community and hear about CFEngine deployment from the people who use it as their main tool. And let me tell you, there are some …
Many users have been asking for ways to limit the amount of some function invocations in CFEngine, in particular functions such as execresult and returnszero. First, let me try to explain why functions were called so many times to begin with, and how we have approached this for version 3.6. …
CFEngine 3.5.3 is now available for download. This is a maintenance release of CFEngine 3.5, and introduces a number of fixes and improvements to both Community and Enterprise editions. Changes in the CFEngine Core: Improved security checks of symlink ownership. A symlink created by a user pointing …
sigurd.teigen@cfengine.com R&D, CFEngine CFEngine has previously had multiple ways of loading data from an external file into a policy. This has been useful for basing policy on tabular data. For example, importing a CSV file to create accounts. Once data has been imported, it may be used using …
eystein.maloy.stenberg@cfengine.com Product Management, CFEngine Introduction The beauty and power of Docker comes from its ability to containerize any application into a portable self-sufficient entity, one that can run anywhere. This enables developers to deliver an application with all …
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