I’m doing a company training on #saltstack and am curious how others like to structure #configuration_management trainings? Regardless of whether it’s #ansible or #cfengine or #puppet #chef etc. I think there’s got to be some common paths people find easiest to follow.

Do you start with examples of the syntax or with the architecture or do a quick start CLI demo first? How quickly do you dig into writing “hello world” and what directions do you like to explore? What are the hard and the easy parts for you and for the students?

Found out about the Firefox Profile Maker https://ffprofile.com and generated a prefs file and enterprise policy for my computer. Will be installing the enterprise stuff across my machines via #cfengine pretty soon. It gives you 7 or 8 screens with check boxes to enable and disable various privacy related options in Firefox. Takes about 10 mins to go through and build an improved privacy scenario. Also will let you choose some key add ones to enhance privacy

latest "monthly module monday" blog post :) https://cfengine.com/blog/2025/masterfiles-module/ (masterfiles(mfp) as the o.g. build module) #cfengine #configurationmanagement #unix #sysops

Can you believe it? It's Friday again, the last Friday of the year and the last #CFEngine Feature Friday post in the series. For the 42nd post I shared some tooling (ob-cfengine3) that has been saving me countless hours for the last seven years. I hope you enjoyed the series.

https://cfengine.com/blog/2024/feature-friday-42-ob-cfengine3/

While I won't promise to embark on another long series, I do encourage you to send me your own tips, you never know what it might spark.

Yes, it's #CFEngine Feature Friday once again. For the penultimate (41st of 42) post in the series I wrote about quoting.

https://cfengine.com/blog/2024/feature-friday-41-how-can-i-quote-thee/

On more Friday to go, what do you think will be #42?

Yes, it's Friday the 13th, but do not fear the 40th (of 42) posts in the #CFEngine Feature Friday series is out. This week I took a look at the --simulate option (an extended dry-run of sorts) for cf-agent to see the details of what CFEngine would do.

https://cfengine.com/blog/2024/feature-friday-40-what-would-cfengine-do/

Yes, it's Friday again and the 39th (of 42) #CFEngine Feature Friday posts is out. This time it's about the power of lists and implicit iteration.

https://cfengine.com/blog/2024/feature-friday-39-the-power-of-lists-and-implicit-iteration/

In case you missed it, #CFEngine Feature Friday #38 (of 42) about developing modules that take input was published https://cfengine.com/blog/2024/feature-friday-38_developing_modules_that_take_input/

It's Friday! For the 37th (of 42) posts in the #CFEngine Feature Friday series I wrote about making decisions based on arbitrary semantic versions using the version_compare() function.
https://cfengine.com/blog/2024/feature-friday-37-decisions-based-on-arbitrary-semantic-versions/

Yep, it's my favorite day of the week, #CFEngine Feature Friday! This time for the 36th (of 42) posts in the series it's about cffmt, a CFEngine policy language formatting tool from @miek

https://cfengine.com/blog/2024/feature-friday-36-formatting-policy-with-cffmt/

Happy Friday! 🎉

Oh, yay. Friday could not have come fast enough. For the 35th (of 42) posts in the #CFEngine Feature Friday series I wrote about Groups in Mission Portal. https://cfengine.com/blog/2024/feature-friday-35-groups-in-mission-portal/

@unrznbl wrote a nice post about using cf-secret cfrom cfengine policy for setting up git credentials https://cfengine.com/blog/2024/promise-type-git-with-credentials/

#CFEngine

It's #CFEngine Feature Friday time again. For the 34th (of 42) post I talked about self organized groups using select_class.

https://cfengine.com/blog/2024/feature-friday-34-self-organizing-groups-with-select-class/

#CFEngine the agent is in, episode 42 is starting soon .... https://cfengine.com/webinars/

Anyone know anything about #cfengine inside an #lxc container on #proxmox? I'm getting errors saying it can't follow /proc/mounts and similar proc symlinks because it is not owned by root or the user running this process... Etc. seems problematic. Do I have to use only VMs if I want cfengine? Or privileged containers?

It's #CFEngine Feature Friday time again :D. We are closing in on the end, only 9 more to go.

For #33 (of 42) I wrote about a benefits of associative arrays (aka classic arrays) over data containers. https://cfengine.com/blog/2024/feature-friday-33-why-associative-arrays-when-data-containers-exist/

Oh, it's #CFEngine Feature Friday time again. For #32 (of 42) we talk about doing math in policy with eval().

https://cfengine.com/blog/2024/feature-friday-32-doing-math-in-policy-with-eval/

Oh my, it's Friday again. You know what that means? Yeah, Feature Friday #30 (of 42) is out. Today it's about generating #CFEngine Agent logos in varying poses with agent-svg. Useful? I dunno, but it's fun!
https://cfengine.com/blog/2024/feature-friday-30-agent-svg/

I've written a blog post about choosing a configuration management system. Let me know your thoughts!

https://blog.emacsen.net/blog/2024/09/29/sysadmin-config-management/

#sysadmin #ConfigurationManagement #devops #ops #Puppet #CFengine #Chef #PyInfra #Ansible

The 28th (of 42) #CFEngine Feature Friday posts is out. Today it's about using if and unless to restrict individual promises.

https://cfengine.com/blog/2024/feature-friday-28-restricting-individual-promises-using-if-and-unless/