We publish videos of our newest features, conference talks, and developer demos.
Features
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Introducing Compliance Reports
Compliance reports allow you to create custom, high level reports, based on company or regulatory requirements. You can test the beta version today, either in CFEngine 3.16, or by using the nightly packages.
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Secret encryption in CFEngine
cf-secret enables end-to-end file encryption in CFEngine. It allows you to easily encrypt a secret, such as an API token, for a specific host in your infrastructure.
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Deploying using cf-remote
This video shows how to remotely deploy CFEngine via ssh, using the cf-remote command line tool.
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Introducing the Policy Analyzer
Do more from Mission Portal with this powerful and simple-to-use extension.
Developer demos
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CFEngine Build in Mission Portal
Find modules and make changes to your infrastructure, all from within the Web UI.
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The CFEngine Build System - cfbs
The new tool, cfbs, allows you to download and manage CFEngine policy, modules, and dependencies.
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Testing the latest CFEngine features locally
Our vagrant quickstart environment allows you to locally test the latest features in nightly CFEngine builds.
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Trigger agent runs and report collection from Mission Portal
The host info page now has buttons to trigger policy evaluation and report collection for a host, making it easier to debug and iterate quickly.
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Publishing pip packages with GitHub Actions
This video demonstrates how easy it is to make new releases of a python package on GitHub, and publish it to pypi.org.
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CFEngine Inventory in Ansible
Some of CFEngines API endpoints are directly compatible with Ansible, making it easier to use the 2 together.
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High Availability (HA) Reporting
CFEngine HA allows reporting and policy distribution to keep working, even if your hub goes offline.
Getting started with CFEngine
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Part 1 - Installation
Installing CFEngine on an Ubuntu 20 Linux virtual machine in Digital Ocean.
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Part 1.5 - Local virtual machine
Using Vagrant and VirtualBox to run VMs locally instead of in the cloud.
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Part 2 - Modules from CFEngine Build
Creating a project, finding and adding modules from CFEngine Build and deploying to the hub.
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Part 3 - Reporting & Web UI
Making changes across your infrastructure and seeing information about all your hosts in our graphical user interface and reports.
Conference talks
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Introduction to CFEngine Build
Lars Erik Wik and Ole Herman S. Elgesem talked about CFEngine Build at CfgMgmtCamp 2023.
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Modernizing the CFEngine Project
Vratislav Podzimek and Ole Herman S. Elgesem talked about CI, Travis, Jenkins, GitHub CodeQL, AddressSanitizer, valgrind, codecov, git submodules, and more, at CfgMgmtCamp 2020.
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CFToolkit: New tooling in CFEngine 3.10, 3.12, and beyond
Ole Herman S. Elgesem showed off new tooling in CFEngine at CfgMgmtCamp 2019.
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