CFEngine

Over the past month we have removed a bit of functionality for CFEngine. These were features that were useful (cf-report) and good ideas (knowledge management), but the implementation was either in an unfinished state or the design had unclear semantics (outputs promise type). Development

Over the past month we have removed a bit of functionality for CFEngine. These were features that were useful (cf-report) and good ideas (knowledge management), but the implementation was either in an unfinished state or the design had unclear semantics (outputs promise type). Development

I've been working a lot with CFEngine newbies. CFEngine has been described as flour, eggs, milk and butter. All the ingredients needed to make a cake. Getting the new CFEngine user to recognize, then become excited about the possibilities that ... [More] CFEngine provides they are now faced with the question of "What next?"Indeed, anybody can throw some flour, eggs, milk and butter into a bowl, mix and bake it. But will it taste good?This is an exposé of how I have managed my CFEngine repository for more than eight years. This design was used to manage over 1,000 host instances.This works best if you have an agile infrastructure. Use SmartOS, OpenStack, Amazon EC2 (Disclosure: I work for Amazon), CloudStack or similar. CFEngine 3 Agility [Less]

I've been working a lot with CFEngine newbies. CFEngine has been described as flour, eggs, milk and butter. All the ingredients needed to make a cake. Getting the new CFEngine user to recognize, then become excited about the possibilities that ... [More] CFEngine provides they are now faced with the question of "What next?"Indeed, anybody can throw some flour, eggs, milk and butter into a bowl, mix and bake it. But will it taste good?This is an exposé of how I have managed my CFEngine repository for more than eight years. This design was used to manage over 1,000 host instances.This works best if you have an agile infrastructure. Use SmartOS, OpenStack, Amazon EC2 (Disclosure: I work for Amazon), CloudStack or similar. CFEngine 3 Agility [Less]

The March snapshot release of CFEngine Community and Enterprise has just hit our webservers. The releases are called 3.5 Beta1 and 3.1 Beta1, respectively, and just as last month: this is work in progress. configuration management CFEngine 3 Community CFEngine 3

The March snapshot release of CFEngine Community and Enterprise has just hit our webservers. The releases are called 3.5 Beta1 and 3.1 Beta1, respectively, and just as last month: this is work in progress. configuration management CFEngine 3 Community CFEngine 3

CFEngine is very easy to install -- just one package per operating system if you are using one of the pre-compiled packages we provide for the Community or for Enterprise editions.We wanted to bring an equally effortless experience to the task of starting CFEngine; bootstrapping a client to a policy server. CFEngine 3 bootstrap

CFEngine is very easy to install -- just one package per operating system if you are using one of the pre-compiled packages we provide for the Community or for Enterprise editions.We wanted to bring an equally effortless experience to the task of starting CFEngine; bootstrapping a client to a policy server. CFEngine 3 bootstrap

The February snapshot release of CFEngine Community and Enterprise has just hit our webservers. Some good things have happend in the Community release, such as partial policy validation through cf-promises and scope attributes in body classes. On the ... [More] Enterprise product and Mission Portal, focus has been on hub diagnostics, and on building an open architecture for knowledge management. Get the release while it's hot, but note that this is an alpha release - work in progress, and not suitable for production environments! So fire up your VMs and let us know what you think! Development [Less]

The February snapshot release of CFEngine Community and Enterprise has just hit our webservers. Some good things have happend in the Community release, such as partial policy validation through cf-promises and scope attributes in body classes. On the ... [More] Enterprise product and Mission Portal, focus has been on hub diagnostics, and on building an open architecture for knowledge management. Get the release while it's hot, but note that this is an alpha release - work in progress, and not suitable for production environments! So fire up your VMs and let us know what you think! Development [Less]