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The Host Info Report has been available in CFEngine Enterprise for some time, it will now be available to community users in CFEngine 3.6. The Host Info Report is a great way to get value immediately if you are using CFEngine for the first time. So ... [More] what does it do? The Host Info Report contains detailed information on the host that CFEngine is running on. Read on to learn more about how to enable and use the report. configuration management community cfengine CFEngine Enterprise CFEngine community automation DevOps [Less]

We are quickly becoming a more software defined world. The music, movie, automotive and telecoms are examples of industries going through disruptiveness due to innovative software defined products. In this new world, IT-operational efficiency has ... [More] risen to be more critical to businesses than ever. community configuration management CFEngine community cfengine automation DevOps [Less]

My name is Jonathan Thorpe and I recently joined CFEngine to work with the CFEngine community. Scale was my first show with CFEngine and I came back extremely energized and enthusiastic about the CFEngine community in SoCal.   configuration management community CFEngine community DevOps

We're proud to release the first Beta package of CFEngine 3.6 to the Community for testing. The new version of CFEngine introduces a huge number of new features to the CFEngine language and a lot of improvements behind the scene. Development CFEngine 3.6 CFEngine 3 Community

Originally posted by Nick on cmdln.org You never know when the Zombie or Cloud Apocalypse is coming. It’s good to be able to locate those buried bodies quickly and easily. OK, enough bad jokes, but haven’t you ever looked at some CFEngine policy and wondered to yourself, exactly what does “delete => tidy” or some other body or bundle do?

Another year has passed and we would like to take a moment to thank the community members for their contributions. From speaking at conferences, epic blog posts, community meet-ups, to support on the CFEngine help list and in the IRC channel, new and ... [More] veteran users alike don't have to look far to find inspiration or a helping hand. Each year we like to reflect on our many community contributors and honor those that have significantly enhanced the CFEngine Community. As such, it is my great honor to announce this year's CFEngine Champion Hall of Fame inductees. DevOps community configuration management CFEngine community [Less]

Having joined CFEngine only a few months ago (and being new to the Open Source movement and culture), attending our Bay Area meetup allowed me to come face to face with our community and hear about CFEngine deployment from the people who use it as ... [More] their main tool. And let me tell you, there are some serious CFEngine warriors out there! In this blog post I will feature two of them. By pure chance both of them are called Bruce, but don’t worry, it’s not a prerequisite to be called that to join our community! configuration management community CFEngine Enterprise DevOps [Less]

Many users have been asking for ways to limit the amount of some function invocations in CFEngine, in particular functions such as 'execresult' and 'returnszero'. Read about how we approach this in CFEngine version 3.6 (to be released early next year)! CFEngine Function execution CFEngine Fuctions CFEngine 3.6 Function Caching

CFEngine 3.5.3 is now available for download. This is a maintenance release of CFEngine 3.5, and introduces a number of fixes and improvements to both Community and Enterprise editions. release CFEngine 3

CFEngine has previously had multiple ways of loading data from an external file into a policy. This has been useful for basing policy on tablular data.  For example, importing a CSV file to create accounts. Once data has been imported, it may be used ... [More] using the existing CFEngine scalar and list data types.In order to make this more flexible, we are introducing a new data type 'data' with version 3.6 of CFEngine. A data container variable is an arbitrarly nested data structure of CFEngine primitives. You may think of a data container as a JSON document, because initially we are only supporting importing from JSON. However, this may change in the future allowing for importing data from YAML, XML and other files... [Less]