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Upgrading From CFEngine 2 To CFEngine 3 - Webinar

Upgrading from CFEngine 2 to CFEngine 3 is easier than you think! In this Webinar, we will go through the steps required to successfully upgrade your CFEngine 2 environment to CFEngine 3. Topics covered in this Webinar will include: Promise Theory and Convergence - How they are utilized in CFEngine …

Posted by CFEngine
February 13, 2013

Why automation leads to greatly reduced IT-costs

At CFEngine we frequently meet companies that save millions of dollars annually as a result of working with our tools. In addition to improved productivity and increased quality of service, automation will make your IT-operations more cost effective. Actually, in order to stay competitive, I would …

Posted by Thomas Ryd
February 7, 2013

Back from FOSDEM 2013 - Impressions

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 …

Posted by Mahesh Kumar
February 5, 2013

January 2013 Release now Available

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 …

Posted by Mahesh Kumar
January 30, 2013

More CFEngine coming your way - every month!

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, …

Posted by Mahesh Kumar
January 21, 2013

Welcome to the CFEngine Development Blog

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 …

Posted by Mahesh Kumar
January 18, 2013

CFEngine and the future of monitoring

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 …

Posted by Mark Burgess
December 28, 2012

From System Administrator to System Engineer

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. …

Posted by Thomas Ryd
December 10, 2012