CFEngine no longer supports the conversion tool for upgrades from CFEngine version 2 to 3. Manual intervention was still needed after its usage, and a simple, direct translation can be a poor choice that misses the opportunity for improvement. We recommend following the Upgrading from CFEngine 2 to 3 guide, alternatively in combination with Professional Services from CFEngine to provide a ‘best effort’ conversion.
CFEngines 1 & 2 CFE3 Community Core CFE Nova World-wide deployment Consistent extensible syntax Introducing Knowledge Management Technology leader Enhanced configuration modelling Scalable reporting Brought convergent repair Lists, patterns, methods Native windows support User extensible without scripts SQL, LDAP integration Fault tolerance features CFDB searchable knowledge bank Generalized package model Spreadsheet model for content driven policies Simplified installation and upgrade Packaging Product integration Support
As the summer draws to a close, CFEngine’s core development team has been wrapping up some intense development to bring you version 3.2.0 of the CFE Community Edition. This release includes some major improvements to community users, and forms the foundation for our upcoming commercial release. See the blog post https://www.blogcompiler.com/2011/08/29/cfengine-3-2-0-extended-change-log/ for a technical summary.
We believe that CFEngine 3.2.0 is now the easiest and most scalable configuration management system to get running in multiplatform environments (Linux, Solaris, AIX, HPUX). Starting with the new bundled policy, just a single command on each host will bootstrap hosts together in a simple classical centrally managed star network, whether in the cloud or on bare metal.
CFEngine is an inexpensive life-support system for complex and mission critical IT infrastructure…
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CFEngine is the leading vendor of open source configuration management solutions, used by the IT industry to keep datacenters running. Its products are installed on millions of servers world wide. The company has been profitable since its inception in 2008.
“We expect to see fundamental changes in the IT Operations industry in the next few years”, said Bjørn Erik Reinseth, Partner of Ferd Capital. “CFEngine is the thought leader among the new generation of solution providers and we believe they will be a game changer and capture a significant share of this market.”
CFEngine has been at the forefront of innovation in Configuration Management since the start of the 1990s, and CFEngine’s CTO and Founder Mark Burgess has been writing a lot about the history of those ideas as well as the vision of configuration management going forward. CFEngine is not a company that rests on its laurels. This year our CTO will be giving a number of talks about the Future of Open Source Configuration Management, this will be worth catching: first at the SCALE 9x conference in Los Angeles, and later at the UKUUG Spring Conference in the UK, as well as a number of guest appearances. We recommend:
Talk of the coming Cloud may be hanging on our horizon, but tonight, at Hr23.Day21.December::, planet Earth reaches the Winter Solstice, when its axial tilt reaches its farthest point from the Sun and darkest night of the year for us in Oslo. As part of our celebration of the holidays around the solstice, we would like to lay a small package under the tree for all our community users, to brighten the sky with a taste of our Nova templates for Linux Managed Services.
CFEngine has played a major role in allowing Facebook to scale from one dormroom server to the largest datacenters of the world. Tom Cook explained it all with high velocity. “Velocity 2010 Conference” It’s June, at the Velocity 2010 conference in Santa Clara, California, and Facebook Systems Engineer Tom Cook provides a glimpse inside the daily life of the Operations team. An important part of the job at Facebook is systems management. He tells us: Facebook chose CFEngine as their configuration management solution. It gives their engineers peace of mind.
GNU/Linux is taking over the embedded device market, bringing Open Source flexibility and superior Unix management techniques to distributed, partially connected, and nomadic environments. Associate Professor Erik Hjelmås of Gjøvik University College in Norway has been experimenting with the latest CFEngine on a Nokia N900 mobile phone. If there is one thing that characterizes the 21st century so far, it must be mobility: mobile phones, mobile internet, mobile people. The tools of system administration, on the other hand, by and large assume that infrastructure is fixed and rooted to predefined subnets and domains.
University of Oslo transforms desktops with CFEngine on Ubuntu CFEngine and Ubuntu go back to College Users at Oslo University will soon be offered the Ubuntu operating system on their laptops and desktop machines, and it will come with fully automated CFEngine management.
The University of Oslo Computing Service (USIT) has always been quick to embrace developments in Unix system administration. It was in this milieu that CFEngine founder Mark Burgess originally conceived the automation software in 1993. Now CFEngine is the most popular solution for hands-free automation around the world, and USIT is forging ahead by bringing the Ubuntu (GNU/Linux) operating system to its users.
Zenoss is fast becoming a recognized leader for commercial open source monitoring. It offers a single model-based product to seamlessly manage physical, virtual and cloud based infrastructure. Its power lies in its flexible combination of network discovery and data presentation, and it makes an ideal partner for CFEngine’s under-the-hood self-healing technology.
CFEngine’s famous lightweight, hands-free approach to system administration grew significantly in 2008 with the release of its Nova product. CFEngine is designed to ensure compliance with a system model, and one of the features CFEngine Nova added was a simple reporting capability for the compliance level of the individual systems. So why CFEngine and Zenoss together?
