How often should your configuration management system verify the integrity of your system? The default choices we've made by CFEngine are the results of almost 20 years of research into this area. Below you will find ten issues and references that explain why these choices are underpinned by the science. These ten things really all amount to the same thing: if you are playing ping-pong against the adversary of change, you need to be as quick on your feet as your opponent -- and faster.

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NEW! CFEngine 3 Nova Evaluation Program

by Geir Nygård - March 19, 2012

CFEngine is happy to see increased demand for our software, both the Open Source version, CFEngine Community, and the Enterprise Software version, CFEngine 3 Nova. We recently moved the CFEngine Community source code to GitHub and plan to use that platform to interact more closely with the general community (watch this space for hot topics to come!).

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Meet the CFEngine Team - Diego Zamboni

by Diego Zamboni - March 19, 2012

Hello - my name is Diego Zamboni, and I am very happy to have this opportunity to introduce myself. If you read the CFEngine forums, you have probably seen me around, but it's nice to be able to step away from official business for a moment and just tell you about myself.

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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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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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