Blog – CFEngine https://cfengine.com Automate large-scale, complex and mission critical IT infrastructure with CFEngine Thu, 04 Mar 2021 18:50:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Comparing Ansible and CFEngine https://cfengine.com/company/blog-detail/comparing-ansible-and-cfengine/ Thu, 25 Feb 2021 16:02:56 +0000 https://cfengine.com/?post_type=pt_blog&p=10218 Generally speaking, CFEngine and Ansible can be used to solve the same problems, but their approaches are different. In this blog post I’d like to discuss the different approaches, their consequences, some advantages of each tool, and even using them together. CFEngines …

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]]> cf-remote is now available via pip https://cfengine.com/company/blog-detail/cf-remote-is-now-available-via-pip/ Thu, 11 Feb 2021 14:17:36 +0000 https://cfengine.com/?post_type=pt_blog&p=10196 cf-remote is a tool for downloading and installing/deploying CFEngine. It automates a lot of the things you have to do before CFEngine is actually installed on your infrastructure, such as provisioning cloud instances, downloading CFEngine installers, copying them to remote hosts and …

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]]> Introducing GitHub Discussions for CFEngine https://cfengine.com/company/blog-detail/introducing-github-discussions-for-cfengine/ Mon, 01 Feb 2021 18:21:46 +0000 https://cfengine.com/?post_type=pt_blog&p=10192 We are excited to announce that CFEngine is now using GitHub Discussions. GitHub Discussions is a feature of GitHub repos, and similar to Q&A platforms like Stack Overflow, and other online forums. After testing it out for a few weeks we are …

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]]> How to implement CFEngine custom promise types in bash https://cfengine.com/company/blog-detail/how-to-implement-cfengine-custom-promise-types-in-bash/ Fri, 29 Jan 2021 15:51:23 +0000 https://cfengine.com/?post_type=pt_blog&p=10184 This blog post will focus on the bash programming part of implementing a promise type. To understand what custom promise types are, and how to use them, you should read the introduction first. To implement a custom promise type in CFEngine, you …

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]]> Custom Promise outcomes in Mission Portal https://cfengine.com/company/blog-detail/custom-promise-outcomes-in-mission-portal/ Thu, 21 Jan 2021 19:58:55 +0000 https://cfengine.com/?post_type=pt_blog&p=10169 CFEngine 3.17.0 introduced custom promise types, which enable CFEngine users to extend core functionality and policy language in a simple way. As an example of the power and simplicity of this new feature, I will show a promise type that helps to …

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]]> How to serve policy from a local git server https://cfengine.com/company/blog-detail/thinking-at-a-different-level-policy-changes-via-git-repo/ Tue, 19 Jan 2021 12:00:51 +0000 https://cfengine.com/?post_type=pt_blog&p=10101 Several months ago I started the practice of using CFEngine Enterprise and its Mission Portal UI on a daily basis to manage the connected devices in my home. To start, I brought up an old desktop machine, cfengine-hub, to use as my …

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]]> Ansible and CFEngine Scalability White Paper https://cfengine.com/company/blog-detail/ansible-and-cfengine-scalability-white-paper/ Tue, 12 Jan 2021 09:06:10 +0000 https://cfengine.com/?post_type=pt_blog&p=10153 Scalability is an important feature of any infrastructure management solution. Either the to-be-managed infrastructure is big already or it is expected to grow as the business grows. Over time more and more resources are needed for CI/CD pipelines and more customers use …

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]]> CFEngine 2020 Retrospective https://cfengine.com/company/blog-detail/2020-retrospective/ Wed, 16 Dec 2020 16:12:06 +0000 https://cfengine.com/?post_type=pt_blog&p=10141 2020 is nearly over, and we’d like to take a couple of minutes to reflect on our year as well as provide a sneak peek into what you can expect from us in 2021. Although it has been a year full of …

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]]> How to implement CFEngine Custom Promise Types in Python https://cfengine.com/company/blog-detail/how-to-implement-cfengine-custom-promise-types-in-python/ Tue, 08 Dec 2020 03:30:57 +0000 https://cfengine.com/?post_type=pt_blog&p=10137 This tutorial focuses on how to write a promise module, implementing a new CFEngine promise type. It assumes you already know how to install promise modules and use custom promise types, as shown in the previous blog post. Why Python? Promise modules …

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]]> Introducing CFEngine Custom Promise Types https://cfengine.com/company/blog-detail/introducing-cfengine-custom-promise-types/ Thu, 03 Dec 2020 18:49:26 +0000 https://cfengine.com/?post_type=pt_blog&p=10134 In CFEngine 3.17, custom promise types were introduced. This allows you to extend policy language, managing resources which don’t have built in promise types. The implementation of custom promise types is open source, and available in both CFEngine Enterprise and CFEngine Community. …

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