For episode 0b111111 Nick and Craig demo CFEngine 3.28 live: container data in Mission Portal, and classes promises gain more flexibility. In this episode, after learning that 63 is the ASCII code for ?, the atomic number for Europium, and the country code for the Philippines Craig followed up on …
Can an AI agent investigate a compromised host well enough to spot a fake user named Palpatine? Watch me find out the hard way. In this episode, Nick demonstrates a Mission Portal MCP server he’s been building with AI — a real-time demo of using an AI-powered agent to investigate a compromised …
We thought we would mix things up a bit here and highlight our open source C library: libntech. I wanted to use libntech’s JSON code to write a minimal tool to parse, check and query JSON data. Using the various library functions related to files, json, strings, sequences and regexes helps …
We’re 60 episodes in, and today we’re getting back to one of the most fundamental tasks in systems management, package management. In this episode we look at three new dnf-related improvements for managing packages on Enterprise Linux (Red Hat, Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux). We walk through the new dnf …
When using CFEngine with the Masterfiles Policy Framework there are two standard “stages” involved in periodic maintenance: update the policy (update.cf) and evaluated the policy (promises.cf). In a standard install the cf-execd component periodically runs first the update policy and …
The standard process for managing that monolithic set, it is a fair amount of git diffing. It’s not hard once you get used to it, but it’s still a lot to do and read. In this episode we take a monolithic CFEngine policy set, the kind most of us have been managing for years in …
We here at CFEngine have seen the collaboration possibilities with Ansible for a long time. See our many ansible related blog posts including previously where I discussed our promise-type-ansible module which enables you to run ansible playbooks from CFEngine policy. You might ask why you would want …
Take a fast thing and make it faster. In this Christmas special, Nick and Herman chat about the new built-in profiling support for cf-agent in the upcoming release. The upcoming 3.27 LTS release introduces a first-class profiling capability directly into cf-agent. Unlike previous solutions (like …
When you first told me that this change was coming I was astonished because I know that normal order, the normal ordering is very intentional like a lot of thought went into it right and it’s not configurable, again on purpose, right!? In this episode, Nick is joined by long-time CFEngine …
“I came here to chew bubble gum and demo the next LTS. And I’m all out of chewing gum.” Herman joined Cody, Craig and Nick to give a sneak peek of the upcoming CFEngine 3.27 LTS release. Herman shows off some of the new features, including: An AI agent to query your infrastructure …
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