@cmdln_ Is embarking on a 42-part saga of showing his favorite and perhaps lesser known features in CFEngine. Follow along on our blog:.

CFEngine 3.26.0 has been released. Read about the new features in this non-LTS release on our blog:.

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CFEngine 3.21.7 and 3.24.2 have been released! Read more in the release announcement: .

CFEngine has integrated with librsync for efficiently transferring changes to files. We saw an 80% reduction in bandwidth usage in our testing. Read our latest developer post to learn more about how to use librsync in your projects:.

CFEngine 3.25.0 has been released! This version includes the audit log, useful for security and compliance purposes, tracking who's made changes to data, created users, deleted groups, etc.

@cmdln_ @spacemacs Thank you for following along for this 42-part ride. All the posts in this series can also be found under the feature-friday tag on our blog:. See you in 2025!.

@cmdln_ On the last Friday of the year, and the series, Nick shows off ob-cfengine3, which extends his favorite editor, @spacemacs, so he can write and run CFEngine policy inside org documents, similar to how Jupyter works for Python. Read more:.

@cmdln_ In the penultimate post of the Feature Friday series, @cmdln_ shares a "quick-tip" about quoted strings in CFEngine policy language, and the 3 different quotation marks you can use. Read more:.

@cmdln_ Feature Friday #40, titled "What would CFEngine do?", looks at the dry-run / simulate features of CFEngine. Allowing you to run your policy, seeing what it would do, without actually making the changes. Read more:.

@cmdln_ In Feature Friday #39, @cmdln_ explains the more dynamic parts of CFEngine policy language, with lists of strings and how they are expanded and iterated over. Read more:.

@cmdln_ In Feature Friday #38, Nick shows how to write modules which take input, allowing users of the module to customize its behavior. Read more:.

@cmdln_ Feature Friday #37 looks at the version_compare() function in CFEngine policy language, which compare two semantic version strings and allows you to take actions if x is newer than y, older than z, etc.

@cmdln_ In Feature Friday #36, we highlight the community contributed cffmt tool for formatting CFEngine policy files. Thank you to Miek Gieben for this contribution:.

@cmdln_ Similar to the previous post, in Feature Friday #35, @cmdln_ shows off the host group functionality in Mission Portal. This enables you to put hosts in group and assign data to all hosts in a group and also filter reports using groups:.

@cmdln_ In Feature Friday #34, Nick looks at the select_class functionality, allowing hosts to self-organize into groups. This can be used to spread out an action, such as rebooting across a month, without explicitly telling each host when to do it. Read more:.

CFEngine 3.21.6 and 3.24.1 have been released! Read more details about these patch / bugfix releases on our blog:.

@cmdln_ Feature Friday #33 explores associative arrays and data containers in CFEngine policy language. Read @cmdln_'s latest blog post today:.

@cmdln_ Nick takes a look at doing math in policy language, with the eval() function. Read the full post, in Feature Friday #32:.

@cmdln_ In Feature Friday #31, @cmdln_ utilizes the storejson() function to show JSON representations of data containers:.

With CFEngine, you install a software agent on each host in your infrastructure, to perform the changes you want to automate. Our latest blog post takes a look at this approach, why it can be beneficial, and some real world examples of how to utilize it:.

@cmdln_ Today, on Feature Friday #30, Nick highlights a little tool / script, which we've used to generate the CFEngine agent logo in SVG format, with options for different poses, colors, and resolutions:.