We’re just back from FOSDEM, the Free and Open source Software Developer’s Europe Meeting in Brussels. For the second year in a row there was a DevRoom for Configuration Systems Management, with room for about 80 people, and long queues outside the door during every talk. Five of us …
Today we released our first monthly release! The January edition of CFEngine Enterprise and Community is now available to those who want to see what we are currently working on. The releases are called 3.1 alpha1 and 3.5 alpha1, respectively - and as the name suggests, this is work in progress. We …
When we reflected in our team about what worked and what didn’t work so well during 2012, one thing stood out: the changes from release to release are too big, and that makes it bloody hard to test that everything works once all the different moving pieces are put together. Core functionality, …
Happy New Year 2013, and welcome to the CFEngine Developer Blog! On posts tagged with Development, the guys and gals working on the CFEngine code will share their thoughts about current challenges, ongoing improvements and completed features. The nature of this information will by definition be …
Since writing my earlier post on (Model based monitoring), I have talked to many users who encouraged me to describe CFEngine’s simple capabilities in more detail. Although CFEngine is not intended as a traditional monitoring platform, it offers a considerable amount of human-friendly …
Automation of IT-operations can lead to fantastic productivity gains, increased quality of service and reduced operational costs. But what about the people, and their jobs? System Administrators will not become obsolete, but the nature of their work often changes in highly automated environments. …
This post originally appeared on Dyn.com, written by Neil Schelly @neilschelly We’ve recently made some big strides at Dyn in implementing a more modern configuration management platform (CFEngine 3) to replace an internally developed system that wasn’t meeting our needs anymore. Reading …
Software developers know that quality of software projects tends to deteriorate over time unless strong measures are taken to prevent this. Software entropy accelerates once the beginning of “software rot” has been allowed to set in, so the trick is to keep the software as clean as …
Do you want to learn more about CFEngine, and hear about the latest developments, tools, tricks and tips? Please join us for “The Guru is in: CFEngine” at LISA'12, a session where you will hear directly from CFEngine developers, engineers and power users. Some of the topics that we will …
Earlier this year we made several proof of concepts to demonstrate that CFEngine can run on embedded and mobile devices. We compiled CFEngine for a devkit 8500 board, Android, QNAP and Raspberry Pi. Due to popular demand we have made the QNAP and Raspberry Pi packages publicly available, free to …
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