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CFEngine - From 2 to 3 and beyond...

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 …

Posted by CFEngine
September 17, 2011

CFEngine releases community edition 3.2.0

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 …

August 29, 2011

Mission Critical IT - can you afford it?

CFEngine is an inexpensive life-support system for complex and mission critical IT infrastructure… Every year the world spends billions on risk avoidance – safety and backup equipment, security systems and even insurance policies against loss and liability. For many of us, the risk of …

Posted by Mark Burgess
August 22, 2011

CFEngine Completes Series A Investment

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 …

Posted by CFEngine
April 4, 2011

Test Driven System Administration

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 …

February 3, 2011

Facebook 'likes' CFEngine!

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 …

June 24, 2010

CFEngine in your phone

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 …

June 21, 2010

CFEngine and Ubuntu go back to University

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 …

June 14, 2010

Zenoss and CFEngine integrate!

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 …

June 10, 2010