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Change in behavior: Renaming bundle agent main

A recent change in the Masterfiles Policy Framework (MPF) is renaming bundle agent main to bundle agent mpf_main. This change is intended to make it easier to run individual parts of your policy leveraging the library main bundle functionality (bundle agent __main__). Library main bundles were first introduced in CFEngine 3.12.0. The functionality allows for the definition of bundle agent __main__. When this bundle definition is present in the policy entry (the first policy file that CFEngine reads) the bundle is understood to be used as the default bundlesequence.

Posted by Nick Anderson
April 11, 2022

Student competition - Build a module and win cash

The CFEngine team is pleased to announce a competition for students in Norway. We want you to write a module in Python, and submit it to CFEngine Build. Your module will be Open Source (MIT License), available for our community of users worldwide. CFEngine is a programming language, and modules can be added to do whatever the user needs, so the possibilities are endless. You can look at some examples for inspiration at the end of this blog post.

April 7, 2022

Change in behavior: Directory permissions and the execute bit

rxdirs has provided a convenient default when setting permissions recursively. When enabled (the default prior to version 3.20.0) a promise to grant read access on a directory is extended to also include execution since quite commonly if you want to read a directory you also want to be able to list the files in the directory. However, the convenience comes with the cost of complicating security reviews since the state requested on the surface is more strict than what is actually granted.

Posted by Nick Anderson
March 29, 2022

Announcing CFEngine Build

Earlier this year, we hinted at what we were working on - a place for users to find and share reusable modules for CFEngine. Today, the CFEngine team is pleased to announce the launch of CFEngine Build: The new website, build.cfengine.com, allows you to browse for modules, and gives you information about how to use each one of them. When you’ve found the module you were looking for, it can be downloaded and built using the command line tooling.

November 1, 2021

Collaboration and sharing - Our plans for 2021

As we’ve hinted at before, 2021 will be a big year for CFEngine. In the summer, we will release CFEngine 3.18 LTS. This is the first LTS release with Compliance Reports, Custom Promise types, and all of the other improvements we’ve made over the past year. Collaboration In addition to implementing valuable functionality for our users, we are focusing on better ways of interacting with them, and more opportunities for contribution, collaboration and sharing.

April 15, 2021

Customer highlight: HIPAA Vault

As an MSSP (Managed Security Service Provider), HIPAA Vault relies on CFEngine to automate & secure their infrastructure on behalf of their customers. HIPAA Vault has been a longtime CFEngine Community user since 2012 and recently upgraded to Enterprise in order to boost their infrastructure visibility through Mission Portal and features like Compliance Reporting that help them provide a more secure & compliant cloud hosting solution. We chose CFEngine over others because it is the most trusted and reliable solution in the market.

Posted by Cody Valle
March 25, 2021

New website & SWAG giveaway

New CFEngine Website Today we’re excited to announce the release of our new website. This has been several months in the making and just one of many big announcement we have planned for 2021. Our goal in redesigning the website is simply to enhance your experience when visiting. Whether you’re an IT Manager evaluating our Enterprise feature set, a Systems Administrator interested in trying CFEngine for the first time or a long time community member, we hope our new website helps you find exactly what you’re looking for quickly and easily.

Posted by Cody Valle
March 18, 2021

Welcoming Dimitrios Apostolou as a CFEngine Champion

As we enter 2020 and reflect on the various contributions the project has received we want to take a moment to recognize one of the more prolific contributors as a CFEngine Champion. It’s my honor to announce and welcome Dimitrios Apostolou as the latest CFEngine Champion. At the time of this writing, he is the fourth most prolific committer in cfengine/core with 1101 commits. 2584 Mikhail Gusarov 2045 Mark Burgess 1430 Sigurd Teigen 1101 Dimitrios Apostolou 825 Kristian Amlie Notably, as an employee of CFEngine AS and Northern.

Posted by Nick Anderson
February 14, 2020

Congratulations 2015 CFEngine Champions

Each year we like to take a moment to recognize outstanding community members for their contributions. Contributions come in the form of code contributions to core, organizing community meet-ups, giving talks about CFEngine at conferences, sharing policy, to helping other users on the mailing list and on IRC. This year the Community Advisory Board was responsible for selecting champions from the nominations, and it is my honor to announce the 2015 CFEngine Champion Hall of Fame inductees.

Posted by Nick Anderson
January 13, 2016

Announcing the CFEngine Community Advisory Board

As CFEngine continues its evolution and adds to the large number of users with a stake in the future of the project, we have established a Community Advisory Board. The aim of the Community Advisory Board is to advise CFEngine AS and the CFEngine project core committers and team leadership on matters relating to supporting the long-term governance, structure, and roadmap of the CFEngine open source project. The Community Advisory Board is not intended to replace existing mechanisms for community input but instead augment it and provide a consolidated opinion from the broader CFEngine community.

Posted by Nick Anderson
April 29, 2015
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