A new feature in the CFEngine Community Core is attracting some interest from system administrators. It is the simplest of ideas, but then such ideas are often the best. Following CTO Mark Burgess’ recent blog with Carolyn Rowland on the Business Value of System Administration, this new …
Moving into a new year, the privately owned and funded CFEngine company has changed its board to include some power members of the Free and Open Software community. “The time has come to change the style of our board work, as we move into a different phase of growth,” says CEO Thomas …
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Following the development of the community standard library, CFEngine has now released a conversion utility that transforms existing CFEngine 2 policies into a basic CFEngine 3 format. The output can be run in either the Community Edition, CFEngine Nova or any other version of CFEngine going …
Neil Watson has generously made some Vim plugins available for CFEngine 3. Abbreviations and other help for CFEngine 3 files CFEngine 3 syntax highlighting
Aleksey Tsalolikhin has written a helpful blog post introducing CFEngine 3. Read the full article.
CFEngine is built on promises. Promises were chosen as the model for CFEngine’s configuration language, because they represent an expression of intention. But expressing your exact intentions in a safe and convergent way (according to the standards you expect from CFEngine) can sometimes be …
CFEngine began in the early part of 1993. It was the first Open Source configuration management tool and quickly became an internationally used tool. Since then, CFEngine has been reinvented several times through our commitment to basic research, and today CFEngine is installed on over a million …
A popular theme in science fiction writing today involves microscopic machines that build and repair other machines, clothing and even people. Today scientists are researching this very thing. Our future may be bright indeed. For system administration nano technology is already here. Software agents …
Over the last few months the CFEngine AS development team has added better integration for CFEngine Nova with windows (without need of Cygwin). The most recent development is support for Windows event logs. Event logs are the Windows counterpart to syslog from Unix. The main difference is that event …
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