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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
My CFEngine journey started in 2008, when I was still a student. I was working on my master’s degree in Mathematics, specialising in cryptography at the University of Tromsø. I had moved to Oslo to write my master’s thesis in cooperation with the Norwegian Defence Research …
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. …
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 …
At Tuesday night’s CFEngine Meet-the-Team BoF session at LISA, Joe Netzel, one of CFEngine’s talented Systems Engineers, showed off a small app that he has been building in his spare time to help new users become more comfortable developing their own CFEngine policies. In Joe’s …
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