Ever tried to wrangle a fleet of servers with just a text file? Nick shows how CFEngine can take advantage of genders for classification. In this episode, Nick dives into the configuration file, /etc/genders. Originally developed by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and currently maintained by …
When writing CFEngine policy we create files ending in the .cf extension but this alone won’t cause the policy to be parsed and evaluated. By default cf-agent runs ${sys.inputdir}/promises.cf. For a non-privileged user running cf-agent this will be in their $HOME directory: command cf-promises …
Did you notice that CFEngine 3.25.0 shipped with librsync as a new dependency? Lars joins Cody, Craig, Herman and Nick to show and tell the massive savings we can expect to see from librsync for remote file copies. Spoiler alert, Lars sees > 80% savings from a simple policy update between 3.24.0 …
We are writing to inform you of a recently discovered security issue in the CFEngine Enterprise web UI, Mission Portal. The issue has been fixed in the recently released 3.21.6 and 3.24.1 versions. Prior versions (3.24.0, 3.21.5, and below) are affected. We have no indications of this issue being …
Today, we are pleased to announce the release of CFEngine 3.25.0! The code word for this release is auditability. Being a non-LTS (not supported) release, this release allows users to test the new functionality we’ve been working on before it arrives in an LTS release ~1 year from now. …
This series of blogs, Monthly Module Mondays , started on April Fool’s Day 2024 discussing how to Inventory and remediate Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) has now reached the 10th installment showcasing a couple of modules to take stock of what …
With another year behind us, we take a look back at what happened with CFEngine in 2024. Webinars: ‘The agent is in’ We are 3 years in to our webinar series, ‘The agent is in’, and the show had, as expected, 12 new episodes. You can find all the recordings, and the …
For the final post in the Feature Friday series I am here to tell you about something I use nearly hourly, ob-cfengine3 which extends Emacs Org Babel for executing CFEngine policy. ob-cfengine3 has been around for a little over seven years now and it has saved me countless hours, seconds at a time. …
Join Cody and Nick for a Christmas Special showcasing the new Audit Log in Mission Portal for CFEngine 3.25. Nick walked through the new Audit Log demonstrating how actions in Mission Portal are tracked and available for review. He also took a quick look at changes to the global search and taking …
Do you enjoy escaping quotes inside strings? I sure don’t, and I really appreciate the flexibility CFEngine provides with 3 different quoting characters (", ', ` ). Let’s take a look. This came up in the post show discussion for The agent is in, episode 39. If you have a string that …
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