Introduction CFEngine and Puppet are configuration management tools that can help you automate IT infrastructure. Practical examples include adding local users, installing Apache, and making sure password-based authentication in sshd is turned off. The more servers and complexity you have, … Continue reading
UPDATE: Please see this updated post instead. NOTE: These tests were carried out in the beginning of 2011, with the newest stable versions of CFEngine and Puppet back then (CFEngine web site and Suse Linux repository, respectively). New versions of … Continue reading
I frequently encounter people trying to do a recursive copy with CFEngine, but want to ignore some subdirectories or files. A typical example is that /var/cfengine/masterfiles is under version control on the policy server, and a lot of meta-data is … Continue reading
Highlights Finally, we are ready for the CFEngine 3.2.0 release and we’ll have a look at the major changes. In 3.2.0, an exciting CFEngine Nova feature is brought into the community edition, and a set of out-of-the-box policies are released … Continue reading
A common question from Cfengine users is how to configure how often cf-agent is being run. Setting a simple time-based schedule is very easy, but there are a few additional steps you might want to consider to ensure optimal scalability. … Continue reading
Highlights First of all, thanks for the good feedback from the previous extended change log! It seems like this is something the Cfengine community is interested in, so I will continue the series. This time we cover the changes in … Continue reading
Highlights Cfengine 3.1.2 was released December 9th, 2010. The theme of the release is major efficiency improvements, but some bug fixes are also included. Looking in the ChangeLog-file in the root of the tarball, we find the following goodies. cf-promises … Continue reading