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CFEngine 3.3.0 Release Notes

Update [April 12, 2012]: Added information about the new templating engine. Highlights The CFEngine Community 3.3.0 release is here, with the largest set of improvements since the introduction of version 3.0! We have added Virtualization and SQL promises to the open source edition and introduced …

April 11, 2012

Meet the CFEngine Team - Diego Zamboni

Hello - my name is Diego Zamboni, and I am very happy to have this opportunity to introduce myself. If you read the CFEngine forums, you have probably seen me around, but it’s nice to be able to step away from official business for a moment and just tell you about myself. I work for CFEngine …

Posted by Mahesh Kumar
March 19, 2012

NEW! CFEngine 3 Nova Evaluation Program

CFEngine is happy to see increased demand for our software, both the Open Source version, CFEngine Community, and the Enterprise Software version, CFEngine 3 Nova. We recently moved the CFEngine Community source code to GitHub and plan to use that platform to interact more closely with the general …

Posted by Mahesh Kumar
March 19, 2012

CFEngine is now on GitHub

We are extremely happy to announce that the source code for CFEngine Community is now hosted on GitHub, one of the largest code-hosting services in the world. This move has many important advantages for both the CFEngine development team and for users. For one, it marks the switch from subversion …

Posted by Mahesh Kumar
March 19, 2012

Ten Reasons for 5-minute configuration update and repair

How often should your configuration management system verify the integrity of your system? The default choices we’ve made by CFEngine are the results of almost 20 years of research into this area. Below you will find ten issues and references that explain why these choices are underpinned by …

Posted by Mark Burgess
March 19, 2012

REST API for Nova

One feature our customers have requested for the next version of CFEngine Nova (available before summer 2012) is having the ability to collect reported data through a REST API. It is already possible to get at reporting data through the Mission Portal web-interface, as well as the command-line …

Posted by Mahesh Kumar
February 20, 2012

What makes clouds float and developers operative? Agility!

In an office, high above New York City, we are looking at the screen of a computer, discussing how the recent blog entry on CFEngine, SysAdmin 3.0 and the Third Wave of IT Engineering applies to the challenges of institutional agility on Wall Street and beyond. `Speed is the product,’ says R. …

Posted by Mark Burgess
January 6, 2012

CFEngine @ USENIX LISA 2011

The LISA conference, run by the USENIX organization, is the largest conference specifically for system administration today. It has been 25 years in the running, and has been a cultural and professional center for the field of the system administration for most of that time. LISA is a unique haven …

December 13, 2011