CFEngine 3.29.0 changes how storage promises treat a filesystem that is already mounted. A promise for an unmounted filesystem now mounts only that filesystem instead of all unmounted filesystems, edit_fstab actively maintains the file system table entry to keep it aligned with the promise even when ...
For episode 0b111111 Nick and Craig demo CFEngine 3.28 live: container data in Mission Portal, and classes promises gain more flexibility. In this episode, after learning that 63 is the ASCII code for ?, the atomic number for Europium, and the country code for the Philippines Craig followed up on ...
Can an AI agent investigate a compromised host well enough to spot a fake user named Palpatine? Watch me find out the hard way. In this episode, Nick demonstrates a Mission Portal MCP server he’s been building with AI — a real-time demo of using an AI-powered agent to investigate a compromised ...
CFEngine is changing how the persistence timer of a class defined by a classes promise is handled when that class is rediscovered on a later run. We consider this a bug fix: classes promises should always have been able to reset the timer, just like classes bodies can. A new timer_policy attribute ...
Drive failures are a matter of when, not if. The good news is that most modern drives warn you before they fail, using S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology). The challenge is collecting that data across a fleet and making it actionable. The new inventory-smartctl module ...
We’re 60 episodes in, and today we’re getting back to one of the most fundamental tasks in systems management, package management. In this episode we look at three new dnf-related improvements for managing packages on Enterprise Linux (Red Hat, Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux). We walk through the new dnf ...
Three notable dnf related improvements making it easier to manage packages on modern Enterprise Linux based systems (Red Hat, Rocky Linux, Alma Linux, etc …) have been merged recently. dnf package module - Manage packages using dnf dnf_group package module - Manage package groups using dnf ...
CFEngine 3.24.4+, 3.27.1+, and 3.28.0+ include a change to how findfiles() handles trailing slashes on directory paths. This change restores trailing slashes to directory results, but with improved consistency compared to earlier versions. The new behavior ensures that directory paths always include ...
The standard process for managing that monolithic set, it is a fair amount of git diffing. It’s not hard once you get used to it, but it’s still a lot to do and read. In this episode we take a monolithic CFEngine policy set, the kind most of us have been managing for years in ...
Take a fast thing and make it faster. In this Christmas special, Nick and Herman chat about the new built-in profiling support for cf-agent in the upcoming release. The upcoming 3.27 LTS release introduces a first-class profiling capability directly into cf-agent. Unlike previous solutions (like ...
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