Florida Training Series
Regular training sessions are now available directly from CFEngine in Florida. Visit our training page for more details and regular updates.
February 1, 2010
CFEngine 2 Conversion Tool
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 …
January 11, 2010
Vim Plugins
Neil Watson has generously made some Vim plugins available for CFEngine 3. Abbreviations and other help for CFEngine 3 files CFEngine 3 syntax highlighting
January 11, 2010
Sys Advent on CFEngine 3
Aleksey Tsalolikhin has written a helpful blog post introducing CFEngine 3. Read the full article.
December 22, 2009
Open Promise-Body Library
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 …
December 22, 2009
A Big Thank-you to Our Users
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 …
December 22, 2009
System-Repairing Nanobot
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 …
December 21, 2009
Windows Event Logs
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 …
December 13, 2009
Size of CFEngine Installations
How big are existing CFEngine installations? Until recently, this question was mostly of interest to people researching approaches to automation and scaling. It is also challenging to obtain good data from users as many users under-quote the number of machines they manage. Often this is to avoid …
November 24, 2009
Elastic Virtualization
In spite of being publicly sceptical of cloud computing as a technological concept CFEngine author Mark Burgess announced that CFEngine will support machine and service virtualization within its framework of convergent promises, in order to facilitate the kind of adaptive utility computing that is a …
November 16, 2009
