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 …
CFEngine works by defining a desired state for a given context and converging towards that goal. Given there is no fixed starting point and that the current context might change wildly it can be challenging to succinctly answer the question “What would CFEngine do?”. In Feature Friday …
Implicit list iteration in CFEngine is quite a unique and novel feature. Today we look at a practice example showing how lists can improve the readability and maintainability of your policy. A novel feature in CFEngine is how a list variable is iterated when referenced as a scalar ($(variable)). …
We are pleased to announce two new patch releases for CFEngine, version 3.21.6 and 3.24.1! These patch releases contain bug fixes and dependency updates. Changes In 3.24.1, Mission Portal has one new feature, requested by our users, which we’d like to highlight - When logging in to the …
Recently we had a Fireside Chat with long-time contributor and CFEngine Champion Bas Van der Vlies. During that talk he mentioned a Build module he developed: promise-type-docker-compose. For this month’s Module Monday post I thought I would take this promise type for a spin alongside the …
CFEngine build modules are great for quickly integrating 3rd party policy into your policy set. Module input (not to be confused with inputs in body common control or body file control which are the list of policy files to load) allows you to define values that apply for a particular module as …
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