CFEngine 3.5.2 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. New functionality has been included to the SQL builder and the Design Center integration in Mission Portal. …
Every year, on the last Friday of July, we pause for a moment and think about the impact of system administrators on our world. It is hard to imagine how different our life would be if it was not for the sysadmin. The goal of the Annual SysAdmin Appreciation Day is to make us all think about that …
CFEngine 3.5.1 is now available for download. This is the first maintenance release of CFEngine 3.5, and introduces a number of fixes and improvements to both Community and Enterprise editions. New functionality has been included to the SQL builder and the Design Center integration in Mission …
After work and discussion, the CFEngine developer team produced https://github.com/cfengine/core/pull/784 to make libraries/cfengine_stdlib.cf compatible with 3.4.x and older again, to modularize it, and to improve the upgrade experience. These changes will be in the upcoming CFEngine 3.5.1 release: …
CFEngine 3.5.0 Community Edition is now available for download! At the same time we have updated the CFEngine documentation, which now lives in a new design and information architecture at https://docs.cfengine.com. This latest release of CFEngine Community comes with a ton of improvements and new …
The Release Candidate of CFEngine 3.5.0 Community Edition is now available for download at: https://cfengine.com/inside/myspace We’re looking forward to your feedback to the changes and improvements! Significantly improved parsing and evaluation of policies A large number of parser and …
Bruce Carleton is the organizer of the San Francisco CFEngine User Group. He has a deep understanding of system administration for distributed systems and how to make it easy (and fun!) to use CFEngine for that. He sent a message to the user group email list, that we want to share with you: Re: …
Recently support for Windows PowerShell was merged into the Enterprise Windows version of CFEngine. PowerShell is Microsoft’s enhanced shell, intended for more advanced system administration and programming tasks. The change to CFEngine means you can seamlessly use PowerShell in your …
Over the last year we have changed the way we test our software from a manual process to a highly automated process. This new system is capable of taking a change from our source code repository and follow it all the way up to where we update our internal staging servers, thus giving us incredibly …
If you are a programmer, you probably know and maybe even love the sprintf family of functions, which format output based on a format specification and on some input data. Here’s a description of the formats available in the GNU libc implementation. I wrote an implementation called format() …
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