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Show notes: The agent is in - Episode 22 - Hackathon: Termux Services

Have a burning desire to run sshd or another service on your VR headset? Cody, Craig and Nick do time-boxed live hackathon working on developing CFEngine services promise type support for Termux. Watch Nick and Craig race to implement basic services support before the timer buzzes. Video The video recording is available on YouTube: At the end of every webinar, we stop the recording for a nice and relaxed, off-the-record chat with attendees. Join the next webinar to not miss this discussion.

Posted by Nick Anderson
February 23, 2023

Show notes: The agent is in - Episode 21 - Troubleshooting with cf-support

What’s the best way to collect information when troubleshooting something with CFEngine? Cody and Nick chat with Craig about cf-support a new tool shipping in the latest (and future) versions of CFEngine. Video The video recording is available on YouTube: At the end of every webinar, we stop the recording for a nice and relaxed, off-the-record chat with attendees. Join the next webinar to not miss this discussion.

Posted by Nick Anderson
January 26, 2023

Show notes: The agent is in - Episode 20 - Reviewing the 2022 CFEngine holiday security calendar

For the holiday season gift yourself an improved infrastructure security posture. Join Craig, Cody, and Nick as they wrap up 2022 and the 20th episode of “The agent is in” reviewing CFEngines’ 2022 Holiday Security Calendar which has advice picked straight from industry standard security hardening guides like the OpenSCAP Security Policies and Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs). Craig demos new modules like maintainers-in-motd, file-permissions, enable-aslr, highlights guidance on writing your own security policies and more.

Posted by Nick Anderson
December 29, 2022

Show notes: The agent is in - Episode 19 - Sneak peek of CFEngine 3.21

The next LTS is coming … Join Cody Valle, Craig Comstock, Nick Anderson, and Ole Herman Elgesem for a preview of the coming in CFEngine 3.21. Video The video recording is available on YouTube: At the end of every webinar, we stop the recording for a nice and relaxed, off-the-record chat with attendees. Join the next webinar to not miss this discussion.

Posted by Nick Anderson
November 22, 2022

Show notes: The agent is in - Episode 18 - Policy examples

Do you know how to use every function available in CFEngine? Join Cody, Craig, Herman to see how Nick uses org-mode, org-roam, and ob-cfengine3 to manage his personal collection of CFEngine Function Examples. Video The video recording is available on YouTube: At the end of every webinar, we stop the recording for a nice and relaxed, off-the-record chat with attendees. Join the next webinar to not miss this discussion.

Posted by Nick Anderson
October 27, 2022

Show notes: The agent is in - Episode 17 - Compliance

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life. How often do you verify your compliance? Once or twice a year? Have you considered reporting on compliance continually? The usual suspects, Cody Valle (Head of community), Criag Comstock (Digger), and Nick Anderson (Doer of Things) see how CFEngine Enterprise can be used to implement and report on compliance, specifically the Ubuntu 20.04 Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG). Nick shows how tagging variables for inventory and Mission Portals compliance reports can be used to implement compliance reporting that is continually verified.

Posted by Nick Anderson
September 29, 2022

Show notes: The agent is in - Episode 16 - CFEngine Enterprise for ARM64

Ever wish that you could run Mission Portal at Home? Some of the CFEngine team gathers in Oslo Norway to do the show live, together. Criag Comstock (Digger) demonstrates how to use cf-remote to access new ARM64 packages for CFEngine Enterprise (Hub and Clients) and experiments with CFEngine Build in Mission Portal. Video The video recording is available on YouTube: At the end of every webinar, we stop the recording for a nice and relaxed, off-the-record chat with attendees. Join the next webinar to not miss this discussion.

Posted by Nick Anderson
August 28, 2022

Show notes: The agent is in - Episode 15 - Extending autorun

How can I run my own bundles automatically, like autorun from the MPF (Masterfiles Policy Framework), but with different logic? Cody Valle (Head of community), Criag Comstock (Digger), Ole Herman Elgesem (Product Manager) and Nick Anderson (Doer of Things) review the existing capabilities and limitations of autorun in the MPF. After reaching the limits offered by the stock framework they explore implementing a custom autorun, for example recursively finding policy files or only including policy files with associated enablement classes.

Posted by Nick Anderson
July 28, 2022

Show notes: The agent is in - Episode 14 - Sneak peek of CFEngine 3.20

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 before our next LTS series. Video The video recording is available on YouTube: At the end of every webinar, we stop the recording for a nice and relaxed, off-the-record chat with attendees. Join the next webinar to not miss this discussion.

Posted by Nick Anderson
June 30, 2022

Show notes: The agent is in - Episode 13 - Custom promise types

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, off-the-record chat with attendees. Join the next webinar to not miss this discussion.

Posted by Nick Anderson
May 26, 2022