cf-runagent is a component for triggering remote agent runs using the CFEngine network protocol. It does not allow for arbitrary commands to be executed, but rather asks the remote host to run the policy it already has. To trigger cf-runagent from other systems or web interfaces, you want to be able to run it as non-root. Install and bootstrap I will use cf-remote to set up a demo hub running CFEngine Enterprise 3.12.1:
CFEngine 3.12.1 LTS has now been released. This release brings many stability and performance improvements to the 3.12 LTS series. It is a stable and well-tested version of CFEngine. We wish to extend a big thanks to the ecosystem that helps make CFEngine great by reporting bugs, contributing fixes and suggesting new and improved functionality. Without you, CFEngine would not be the powerful, high performance, widely used product we all appreciate today! We hope and think this release meets the high standards we know all our users have. That is why you chose CFEngine in the first place! This is a good time to start thinking about updating to 3.12, as this is the best and most long-term solution available. You can read more about our supported versions here, but in short, we can highlight that:
Today we are very happy to announce the release of CFEngine 3.13.0. This is a non-LTS release, introducing new features and functionality. There is a lot happening with CFEngine these days! This release is closely following last weeks release of CFEngine 3.10.5 LTS, and soon we will also release the next patch version of our 3.12 LTS series. So keep following our updates! Contribute to CFEngine Did you know that CFEngine is a dual license open source project? And not only that, we are encouraging community contributions, and are always looking for ways to improve and grow our ecosystem. We encourage you to contribute and participate in the fun development of CFEngine! Do you want to start contributing but are unsure how?
Today we are very happy to announce the maintenance release of CFEngine 3.10.5. This is an update to the LTS 3.10 series, adding improved stability, several bug fixes and increased performance. 3.10 LTS is the successor of 3.7 LTS that, since August 2018, is no longer supported. We recommend everyone still using CFEngine 3.7 to upgrade to either 3.10 or 3.12. We are available to support you with such an upgrade if you need it. 3.10.5 LTS is a maintenance release (also known as a patch release), with the goal to increase the stability and reliability for CFEngine users and enable a safe upgrade path. As such, this release primarily includes bug fixes and low-risk changes that do not impact the compatibility between previous patch releases. Looking at the CFEngine release schedule, we can see that
Today we are happy to announce the general availability of CFEngine 3.12.0 LTS! This release has a lot of new features, and we are very excited about all the new possibilities you get with CFEngine 3.12.0 LTS. If you are using the previous LTS, 3.10 you will also benefit from all the new features, improvements and testing of the 3.11 release, which you can read more about in the CFEngine 3.11 release post.
Today we are happy to announce the general availability of CFEngine 3.12.0 LTS beta. The release of 3.12.0 beta took longer than expected. As a result we have decided to adjust our release schedule, and we releasing 3.12.0 beta now and later this year 3.12.0 will be the next official LTS release. If you are planning to contribute features or fixes to the next set of releases (we warmly welcome that !), we are always accepting those. The window for features is not closed for 3.12, but we appreciate help with fixing potential bugs in the beta, improving the performance if there are any identified issues, or generally implementations of suggestions moving forwards. If you want to start contributing but are unsure how? - Send documentation updates as pull requests to cfengine/documentation. - Search for issues labeled easy that are good candidates for new contributors to cfengine/core.
We’re happy to announce the maintenance releases 3.7.8 LTS and 3.10.4 LTS today! 3.7.8 LTS and 3.10.4 LTS, being maintenance (aka patch) releases, the goal is to increase stability and reliability for CFEngine users and enable a safe upgrade-path. As such, these releases primarily includes bugfixes and low-risk changes that do not impact the compatibility between previous patch releases. Looking at the CFEngine release schedule, we can see that 3.7 LTS is maintained (and supported for Enterprise customers) until August 31st 2018 3.10 LTS is maintained (and supported for Enterprise customers) until December 27th 2019 Want to start contributing but unsure how?
We’re happy to announce the maintenance releases 3.7.7 LTS and 3.10.3 LTS today! 3.7.7 LTS and 3.10.3 LTS, being maintenance (aka patch) releases, the goal is to increase stability and reliability for CFEngine users and enable a safe upgrade-path. As such, these releases primarily includes bugfixes and low-risk changes that do not impact the compatibility between previous patch releases. Looking at the CFEngine release schedule, we can see that 3.7 LTS is maintained (and supported for Enterprise customers) until July 17th 2018 3.10 LTS is maintained (and supported for Enterprise customers) until December 27th 2019 If you are planning to contribute features or fixes to the next minor release 3.12.0 (thank you!), please note that we would need the pull requests ready for merging by the end of February 2018. Want to start contributing but unsure how?
We’re happy to announce that CFEngine 3.7.6 is released! With 3.7 being a stable LTS branch, 3.7.6 brings bug fixes and stability enhancements to the CFEngine customers and community. Looking at the CFEngine release schedule, we can see: 3.7 LTS is maintained (and supported for enterprise customers) until July 17th 2018. 3.10 LTS is maintained (and supported for enterprise customers) until December 27th 2019. If you are planning to contribute feature to the next feature release (thank you!), please note that we wold need the pull requests ready for merging by the end of September for incorporation into 3.12. If you are planning to contribute fixes to 3.10 or 3.7 LTS please note that we would need the pull requests ready for merging by the end of September for incorporation into 3.7.7 and 3.10.3. RPM packages now respect the chkconfig specified state when stopping a service. Now if the cfengine3 service is off for runlevel 2 the CFEngine services are stopped when you switch to runlevel 2. cf-monitord now correctly detects the usernames for processes on AIX. Classification when running under the Xen Hypervisor was also fixed. Masterfiles got fixes to the apt_get package module so that it works correctly when more than one source repository contains the package. Masterfiles also saw the addition of oslevel (on AIX), mailx (on Linux, Darwin, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and FreeBSD) to the paths bundle. The prunetree bundle was added to the standard library making it easier to recursively delete files and directories up to a specified depth older than a specified number of days. Enterprise gets bug fixes related to exporting reports and sharing host categorization views and reports. Additionally when hostnames are displayed in reports they now link to the individual host info page and usernames are now allowed to contain dots (.). Masterfiles now ensures the postrgres log file is rotated. The verbosity of some maintenance policy was increased and the policy to clear a build up of unreported data now includes previous_state and untracked reports. Some Enterprise dependencies were updated:
We’re happy to announce the maintenance release 3.10.2 LTS and the new 3.11.0 non-LTS release today! 3.10.2 LTS, being a maintenance (aka patch) release, the goal is to increase stability and reliability for CFEngine users and enable a safe upgrade-path. As such, the release primarily includes bugfixes and low-risk changes that do not impact the compatibility between previous patch releases. 3.11.0 non-LTS includes new features and is not covered under the CFEngine Enterprise support contract. Looking at the CFEngine release schedule, we can see that
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