Interested in seeing what’s around the corner in CFEngine Enterprise? Herman (Product Manager) walks us through the features that we will find in the upcoming release of CFEngine 3.20. Being a non-LTS release, it’s a great opportunity to try out new features and get your feedback in …
A while back we released version 2 of cfbs, and even though we release versions of this tool quite frequently, without announcing it on the blog, we thought this was a good opportunity to talk a bit about the tool, what’s new and our direction with it in the future. The reason why we called …
Interested in extending the CFEngine DSL to support your own custom promise types? Herman (Product Manager) walks us through implementing custom promise type in python. Video The video recording is available on YouTube: At the end of every webinar, we stop the recording for a nice and relaxed, …
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 …
Last year, we launched functionality for users to add policy for reporting data, compliance reports, promise types, and other code as modules. With CFEngine Build, users can manage and update their own policy, the default policy and any additional modules separately. This makes it very easy to …
I re-stumbled across this mailing list post from Bryan Burke about some policy framework upgrade issues where he also asked about hooking in and customizing the update policy. I thought this sounded like a good opportunity for an example using a cfbs module. So, let’s take a look at making a …
Last year we had a look at managing local groups with the custom groups promise type. As you may or may not recall, we used JSON-strings to imitate CFEngine bodies. This was due to the fact that the promise module protocol did not support bodies at that time. Today, on the other hand, we’re …
With the recent release of build.cfengine.com and cfbs I have been thinking about the process of converting a traditionally managed policy set. I consider a traditionally managed policy set one where you have a repo with the root of masterfiles being the root of the repository, or even having no …
This is the final summary of our 2021 security hardening holiday calendar. We wanted to provide educational, useful, and actionable security advice, and we’re really pleased with the reception! Thank you for reading and following along. Week 1-3 summary (1-21/25) We posted summaries for the 3 …
The internet has been ablaze since the announcement of Log4Shell, the nickname for CVE-2021-44228, an arbitrary remote code execution vulnerability in the Java logging utility Log4j. So far two additional vulnerabilities (CVE 2021-45046, CVE-2021-45105) have been identified. If you are interested in …
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