Note: this blog post was updated January 29th, 2026 Here comes a profoundly belated blog post on a behavior change. Better late than never. Due to various bugs with the glob engine on Windows, we decided to rewrite it in CFEngine 3.24.0. Not only does the new glob engine resolve these bugs on …
This series of blogs, Monthly Module Mondays , started on April Fool’s Day 2024 discussing how to Inventory and remediate Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) has now reached the 10th installment showcasing a couple of modules to take stock of what …
I promised more Build modules in my previous monthly Monday module blog post: package-method-winget. And here they are: windows-capability and windows-optional-feature. Inventory Both of these modules use similar usage details to control whether to inventory and to promise the state for specific …
As a developer and user of CFEngine I want to use policy to manage the software on my systems so that I can switch operating systems, distributions, computers and have all my normal tools available wherever I go. Towards this end I searched for a Windows package manager and found one in winget. I …
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 …
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 …
Recently support for Windows PowerShell was merged into the Enterprise Windows version of CFEngine. PowerShell is Microsoft’s enhanced shell, intended for more advanced system administration and programming tasks. The change to CFEngine means you can seamlessly use PowerShell in your …
Over the last few months the CFEngine AS development team has added better integration for CFEngine Nova with windows (without need of Cygwin). The most recent development is support for Windows event logs. Event logs are the Windows counterpart to syslog from Unix. The main difference is that event …
Following a sustained effort by the programming team at CFEngine AS, CFEngine Nova (the commercial version of CFEngine 3) will run natively on Windows NT platforms (not merely emulated under the Cygwin framework), with first release just into the new year 2010. Support has been added for registry …
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