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() …
Last week, we revamped the way CFEngine formats output. You can continue to use the old output format by specifying the option –legacy-output (-l), but this is considered deprecated and may be removed in a future version. The key features of the new output format are as follows. Consistent …
IT-organizations around the world face constant pressure to do more, do it faster and with fewer resources. They are seen as cost centers and as such benchmarked against the performance of nimbler competitors and the public cloud providers. IT-organizations feel that pressure from multiple sources …
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