CFEngine

The beauty and power of Docker comes from its ability to containerize any application into a portable self-sufficient entity, one that can run anywhere.  This enables developers to deliver an application with all dependencies in a layered image ... [More] structure.  CFEngine helps improve upon the availability of the application by helpijng restart app-critical processes.  Also, CFEngine helps manage multiple processes within a Docker container system administration Process Restart LinkedIn Docker DevOps Development Container configuration management CFEngine 3 Community CFEngine 3 Application Availability [Less]

William Gibson once said: “The future is here, but it is not evenly distributed”. Within the space of IT-operations and automation we see clear evidences of this. Last week at LISA, System Engineer Mike Svoboda from LinkedIn gave us a glimpse of ... [More] insight into the future of infrastructure operations... system administration LinkedIn DevOps Development configuration management CFEngine 3 Community CFEngine 3 [Less]

This month (literally tomorrow) at Velocity 2013 London Khushil Dep of the MailOnline will address the conference and present how his firm leverages CFEngine for their infrastructure management needs.  As Khushil puts it "At the MailOnline we use ... [More] CFEngine as the core of our configuration management. A way in which we describe our intentions in clear, precise and workable logic patterns which the Machine can understand without ambiguity."     Velocity London 2013 system administration LinkedIn MainOnline DevOps Development configuration management CFEngine 3 Community CFEngine 3 [Less]

The CFEngine team was at LISA 2013 in Washington, D.C. this past week.  It was the perfect setting - the weather playing nice, and having some of the sharpest minds share their accomplishments in the large installation system administration space.   ... [More] Redis LISA 2013 DevOps configuration management Development CFEngine 3 Community CFEngine 3 system administration LinkedIn [Less]

Hello Everyone! It is not too often that one gets to join a company with solid fundamentals when it comes to technology and one that finds itself as the change leader in an area that is evolving real-time (DevOps and Continuous Delivery). Well, I am ... [More] thrilled to report that I am onboard here at CFEngine as their VP of Marketing. In the days ahead I will be reporting back frequently on the cool things we are doing here at CFEngine. system administration DevOps Development configuration management CFEngine 3 Community CFEngine 3 [Less]

Today we are excited to share with you that we were inducted into the JPMorgan Chase Hall of Innovation. Induction into the JPMorgan Chase Hall of Innovation is an extraordinary achievement for CFEngine. This award recognizes the market-leading ... [More] innovation and execution CFEngine has demonstrated by delivering a world-class IT automation solution. In JPMC’s words, we “have gone above and beyond in delivering disruptive technology and creating business value for JPMC”. system administration DevOps Development configuration management CFEngine 3 Community CFEngine 3 [Less]

A while ago, work was started on a new promise type in CFEngine, the "users" promise type. What it does is make promises about which users are supposed to be present on each host, what login credentials they have, what groups they are part of, and so ... [More] on. This has traditionally been something one would have to write in the CFEngine policy using system commands, but with this new feature it becomes a much more convenient and robust solution for users management. system administration Development configuration management CFEngine 3 Community CFEngine 3 [Less]

Some software is more opinionated than others. If it ever made sense to anthropomorphize software, the CFEngine agent would be a good candidate. A CFEngine installation is a society of independent agents, each with their own goals, schedules and ... [More] limited view of the world, individually doing their best under current weather. Mark Burgess' new book “In Search of Certainty” may be viewed as a popular anthology... velocity meetup devopsdays books [Less]

In the week of October 14 we will be out in force in New York City. We will be a sponsor at the Velocity Conference from October 14 to 16, participate in a meeting of the NYC CFEngine Meetup on October 15, and we will also be a sponsor at the New ... [More] York DevOpsDays on 17 and 18 October. velocity meetup devopsdays continuous delivery cfengine books Agility [Less]

Back in June, just before I went off for holiday, I attended a CFEngine training in Amsterdam. When I returned from holiday a few weeks later, me and my team started making plans to implement CFEngine in our environment. After two months of hard ... [More] work, I’m proud to say we manage about 350 out of our 400 Linux servers with CFEngine! configuration management cfengine [Less]