Nick and Cody celebrate Thanksgiving with a holiday special reviewing some policy related questions Nick recently received. Get the list of all network interfaces present default:sys.interfaces only contains configured interfaces, not configured interfaces. default:sys.interfaces_data at least for …
The prolific contributor and CFEngine Champion Bas Van der Vlies joins the team for a chat about his history and experience with CFEngine dating back to version 1.0.3. For this special Halloween edition Bas joined Cody, Craig and Nick to reflect on his journey getting into information technology …
Get CFEngine support in Zed, “The editor for what’s next”. “Zed is a next-generation code editor designed for high-performance collaboration with humans and AI.” Cody and Nick are joined by Herman for an introduction to tree-sitter grammars, language servers and a quick …
Ready for more CFEngine on Windows? Join Cody, Craig and Nick for a walk through of some windows related build modules and policy that Craig has been working on. Craig talks about powershell, cmdlets, winget and docker and shows progress towards some new modules for CFEngine Build. Video The video …
Ever want to manage subvalues in a configuration file? In episode 39 we talk about using field_edits in edit_line bundles. Cody and Craig join Nick as he prototypes and iterates on some policy showing how to manage subvalues in KEY = quoted values. A question raised during one of our recent post …
Interested to see what’s new in the next LTS version (3.24) of CFEngine? Nick joins Craig and Cody to see what’s coming in 3.24. From the new groups feature which allows you to assign data to a group of hosts to improvements in filtering and new functionality in Build and other changes …
Curious about package management with CFEngine on Windows? After sharing some history on Microsoft’s global advertising campaign for “Where do you want to go today?” Craig shared some of his recent experiments with several windows based package managers as well as their related …
It’s easy to switch from Community to Enterprise. Craig demonstrates the process of migrating from Community to Enterprise and touches on using many of the available components and tools from cf-remote to cf-net and so much in-between. Video The video recording is available on YouTube: At the …
Have you ever wanted some hosts to organize themselves into different groups, but without spending time to worry about assigning a specific group? Cody, Craig, and Nick talk about using the select_class feature in CFEngine. Nick implements automatic assignment of a maintainer for each host: You want …
Curious about getting visibility of a host where you can’t install CFEngine natively, but can run a container? Craig shows us how he’s getting inventory from his Torizon Verdin IMX8MP by deploying a container with a chroot containing volumes bind mounted from the host. A long post show …
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