My laptop was getting stale… I’ve been using it every work day for about 2.5 years now and so much software is installed it just boggles my mind. I really love it otherwise, open source, trying to be transparent, generally has worked amazingly! I have a Librem 15v3 from Purism. My home dir is …
Today we announce the newest additions to CFEngine. CFEngine 3.16 brings several improvements, bug fixes, and new features. The theme for this release has been compliance, and it notably includes a new category of reports for proving compliance to regulation and other compliance frameworks in high …
We are today very excited to bring you new updates to CFEngine. This is a set of patch releases for the CFEngine 3.12 LTS and 3.15 LTS series. We usually release new patch releases every 6 months, but we want to bring new features and all improvements and bug fixes to our users as soon as possible. …
CFEngine 2 network communication is insecure by today’s standards. CFEngine 2 CVE-2016-6329: CFEngine 2 uses Blowfish cipher (1993) which today is considered: Weak Deprecated Subject to key recovery attack No security fixes since 2008. Protocol communications not encrypted; only data transfer …
Recently I wanted to start measuring the length of time it took for PostgreSQL to acquire a lock so that I could keep an eye on how it changes over time. My PostgreSQL logs contain entries like the following that record the amount of time in ms it took to acquire a lock. 2019-06-11 18:49:39 GMT LOG: …
This was originally published here, it has been re-published with permission. How can I execute a command that uses command substitution in CFEngine? On the console I might execute something like this: Listing 1: Example command substitution touch /tmp/file-$(date --iso-8601) ls /tmp/file-* …
This post was syndicated with permission from the original source. CFEngine 3.12.0 introduced the augments key to the Augments file format. If you are not already familiar with Augments, check it out. It’s a very easy way to define classes and variables very early during agent execution, …
This post was syndicated with permission from the original source. How do you deal with config files that need different settings based on various services that are running on a host and cooperate with other teams? It’s a common question, and it came up in #cfengine on libera.chat recently. …
At SURFsara we use CFEngine on our National Compute Cluster (LISA) and other systems as our configuration management tool. With the release of CFEngine 3.12 I want to highlight 2 new features, namely: missing_ok multiple augments We use these 2 new features heavily in our framework in combination …
Authored by Brian Bennett of Digital Elf I’ve been working a lot with CFEngine newbies. CFEngine has been described as flour, eggs, milk and butter. All the ingredients needed to make a cake. Getting the new CFEngine user to recognize, then become excited about the possibilities that CFEngine …
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