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Yesterday, I had an amazing opportunity to participate in the inaugural Internet of Things (IoT) Expo held at Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco. The event was conceived by Jeremy Geelan who is also behind the highly successful Cloud Expo events. ... [More] configuration management community CFEngine Enterprise cfengine CFEngine community automation DevOps [Less]

In a few days I’ll be flying to Austin to attend DevOpsDays Austin. It was an awesome event last year and CFEngine is proud to be sponsoring the event. I’m looking forward to participating in open space sessions and hearing about the latest ... [More] challenges, tips and tricks people have to share. It will also be my first chance this year to see if DevOps is making advances in the traditional enterprise (aka horses) instead of just hearing about Netflix, Amazon, Etsy, Facebook (aka unicorns). See you in Austin! configuration management community CFEngine Enterprise CFEngine community automation cfengine DevOps [Less]

We are pleased to announce that CFEngine Founder Mark Burgess will be speaking at the next Silicon Valley DevOps meeting about the future of configuration management. DevOps configuration management community CFEngine Enterprise automation CFEngine community cfengine

We had an amazing time meeting so many of you at the Red Hat Summit in San Francisco a few weeks ago.  This was Red Hat’s largest summit to date and we experienced high traffic at our booth from attendees wanting to learn more about the scalability ... [More] and security of CFEngine’s enterprise offerings. configuration management DevOps community CFEngine Enterprise CFEngine community cfengine automation [Less]

CFEngine 3.6 introduces a set of features for inventory management, and we'll have a closer look at one of them today. This feature is part of both the Community and Enterprise editions. It essentially outputs the inventory in terms of classes and ... [More] variables at a local node. community CFEngine Enterprise CFEngine community cfengine automation configuration management DevOps [Less]

CFEngine is a proud sponsor of the Red Hat Summit next week in downtown San Francisco! If you are attending the event, be sure to visit us at Booth #116 to say hello and learn more about new features of CFEngine 3.6 as well as get special discounts ... [More] for our upcoming user conference, Promise2014. community CFEngine Enterprise CFEngine community cfengine automation configuration management DevOps [Less]

Learn how to use CFEngine to detect if your hosts have a vulnerable version of OpenSSL, and upgrade it automatically. security openssl howto heartbleed

We’re proud to announce Promise2014, the first annual CFEngine user conference!  On September 17 to 19 at the DoubleTree by Hilton in San Francisco Airport. configuration management community CFEngine Enterprise CFEngine community cfengine automation DevOps

As you may know, a serious vulnerability was recently announced in OpenSSL, commonly referred to as Heartbleed or more officially by its CVE ID CVE-2014-0160. This vulnerability affects the OpenSSL heartbeat mechanism and allows unauthorized access ... [More] to private data including encryption keys, encrypted traffic and more. At CFEngine we use OpenSSL both in our infrastructure and in our products. The security of our users and customers is one of our primary concerns, so we immediately began investigating the possible impact of this bug. Here are our findings. security openssl heartbleed [Less]

The Host Info Report has been available in CFEngine Enterprise for some time, it will now be available to community users in CFEngine 3.6. The Host Info Report is a great way to get value immediately if you are using CFEngine for the first time. So ... [More] what does it do? The Host Info Report contains detailed information on the host that CFEngine is running on. Read on to learn more about how to enable and use the report. configuration management community cfengine CFEngine Enterprise CFEngine community automation DevOps [Less]