In these times dominated by ever growing amounts of technology, have you ever considered the power of less? In this very special episode, we celebrate Craig Comstock’s 8-year anniversary with the company! Craig takes us on a journey into the concept of “decomputing” - the idea of …
Is 5 minutes of drift too long? Winter is coming, and so is CFEngine support for dealing with immutable files. CFEngine has always been a powerful tool for enforcing configuration and preventing drift. It’s the very essence of its mission to ensure the state of a system remains in line with its …
They say data is the new oil, that makes classfilterdata() the new rig. Check out how Jay Goldberg pumps the Two Sigma data lake with CFEngine. In Episode 51 special guest Jay Goldberg of Two Sigma joined the CFEngine team to discuss data-driven configuration, other examples of data driven policy ( …
“For some reason they’re willing to read a 20-page essay from a chatbot when they would never imagine doing it from a colleague.” For episode 50 Cody, Craig, and Nick are joined by special guests Mark Burgess, progenitor and original creator of CFEngine, Ted Zlatanov, configuration …
No more default passwords! CFEngine 3.26.0 (“admin”) forces you to create an admin user from scratch. Cody, Craig, and Nick take a look at the latest CFEngine release, 3.26.0, the “admin” release. After showing the new setup process to create an initial privileged user and highlighting …
Manage your phone like a server. In this episode, Craig brings CFEngine to Android with custom package modules and creative hacks. Cody and Herman join Craig while he shares his journey of integrating CFEngine into a Fairphone 4 running /e/OS (a privacy-focused Android fork), using Termux to enable …
Is your CFEngine policy set a Frankensteinian monster of outdated files and custom tweaks? Take a look at tooling we have in development (cfbs analyze) to help shed light on the makeup of your policy set. In this episode the team showcases a new tool for analyzing CFEngine policy sets. Learn how to …
Ever tried to wrangle a fleet of servers with just a text file? Nick shows how CFEngine can take advantage of genders for classification. In this episode, Nick dives into the configuration file, /etc/genders. Originally developed by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and currently maintained by …
Did you notice that CFEngine 3.25.0 shipped with librsync as a new dependency? Lars joins Cody, Craig, Herman and Nick to show and tell the massive savings we can expect to see from librsync for remote file copies. Spoiler alert, Lars sees > 80% savings from a simple policy update between 3.24.0 …
Join Cody and Nick for a Christmas Special showcasing the new Audit Log in Mission Portal for CFEngine 3.25. Nick walked through the new Audit Log demonstrating how actions in Mission Portal are tracked and available for review. He also took a quick look at changes to the global search and taking …
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