REST API for Nova

by Sigurd Teigen - February 20, 2012

One feature our customers have requested for the next version of CFEngine Nova (available before summer 2012) is having the ability to collect reported data through a REST API. It is already possible to get at reporting data through the Mission Portal web-interface, as well as the command-line client cf-report. However...

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Meet the CFEngine Team - Eystein Måløy Stenberg

by Eystein Måløy Stenberg - February 14, 2012

Hello, my name is Eystein Måløy Stenberg, and I have been working for CFEngine since the company was founded back in 2008. You have probably seen me post on the forum, and on the company blog from time-to-time, but I thought it was time for a proper introduction.

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What makes clouds float and developers operative? Agility!

by Mark Burgess - January 06, 2012

In IT, the challenge of the environment is the jungle of changing demand, business imperatives, and the striving for competitive fitness in a cut-throat marketplace; it is network requests to servers, spanning a landscape of different operating systems and their curiosities; it is a backlog of security patches and bug-fixes that need to be navigated, without losing balance. Superficially, this is quite different from the primate jungle, but mastering this other world is still about having sufficient speed and dexterity.

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CFEngine @ USENIX LISA 2011

by the editor - December 13, 2011

The LISA conference, run by the USENIX organization [www.usenix.org], is the largest conference specifically for system administration today. It has been 25 years in the running, and has been a cultural and professional centre for the field of the system administration for most of that time. LISA is a unique haven for practitioners in the field, but it was also the place where modern theory emerged, driven largely by the efforts of a small group of individuals known as the ABC of system administration: Anderson, Burgess, Couch. CFEngine Founder Mark Burgess has been attending LISA since 1997.

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Now in Beta: New CFEngine 3 Policy Wizard

by Steve Curry - December 08, 2011

At Tuesday night's CFEngine Meet-the-Team BoF session at LISA, Joe Netzel, one of CFEngine's talented Systems Engineers, showed off a small app that he has been building in his spare time to help new users become more comfortable developing their own CFEngine policies.

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