CFEngine 3.24.4 and 3.27.1 have been released: cfengine.com/blog/2026/cfeng…

CFEngine 3.27.0 LTS has been released! Explore your infrastructure with the AI agent. By connecting an LLM, you can now get help with answering questions about your infrastructure and creating new reports. Read more: cfengine.com/blog/2026/cfeng…

CFEngine 3.21.8 and 3.24.3 LTS have been released. Upgrade today to get the latest bug fixes and improvements. cfengine.com/blog/2025/cfeng…

Last outreach for the year, from my notes. A quick paper now on arxiv, connecting the dots between CFEngine and modern LLM - the attention and context model. From LLM to LIM (less is more). arxiv.org/abs/2512.19084

The @Cloudflare outage really reminds me of a principle I insisted on with CFEngine: NO LICENSE SERVERS! The few licenses I had to rely on are now all disabled. Thank you.

Hmm, I'm not sure. I definitely had used a lot of languages at that point, but mostly by virtue of being in ops. So, bash, perl, Golang, SQL, cfengine, various configs, probably more I'm forgetting. I'd mucked with emacs lisp and never had a lightbulb moment with it. Attended a brown bag presentation about Haskell and got to "no universal nulls" and got religion on the spot. Took a while longer for me to become proficient at it, just because of the state of the onboarding materials for it.

Sure but there’s this strong trend where if you hire an Indian manager, eventually that team will become Indian over time. Cfengine -> eventual consistency

I've written a bit about context recently. It doesn't feel like anything new -- basically what we were doing 30 years ago with agents in CFEngine, just on a much bigger scale. But then there's the flurry of activity around "small language models" .... good or just in defiance?

С днём дня, когда мне нужно копаться в какой-то хуите, а именно CFEngine. Promises лажают, агент зависает, а я колдую над конфигами. ЗАЦЕНИТЕ ЭТОТ ЕБЕЙШИЙ КОНФИГ

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.com/blog/2025/effic…

Это проклятая область. 1) для нее нет строгой теории 2) ее отдают сисадминам которые пытаются автоматизировать "как получится" 3) получаются ансибли, кубернетисы, докеры, cfengine, terraform уебищные проприетарные облака на которых это все должно работать

fucking blenders running netbsd orchestrated by cfengine!

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. cfengine.com/blog/2025/cfeng…

3️⃣days to 2025⏳#ContentCountdown ⏱ 💡 @markburgess_osl – creator of CFEngine – joined us to discuss the myth of 100% reliability, digital vs. analog resilience, and practical lessons in system design. 🎧Listen to the full JUXT Cast episode here➡️ juxt.pro/blog/promise-theory…

I have idle thoughts like, "what if I write an ansible / cfengine-alike in rust" occasionally and then I remember I don't actually enjoy ops and I'd only push this idea as far as it needed to go to serve my needs. I hate ops automation slightly less than ops.

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: cfengine.com/blog/2024/benef…

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: cfengine.com/blog/2024/featu…

In today's post, @cmdln_ highlights 'agentsay', a 'cowsay' alternative for CFEngine fans: cfengine.com/blog/2024/featu…

It starts with cfengine in the early 1990s, and it carries on in essentially every piece of software that matters in the space today. I've dedicated a significant portion of my own life to building and using tools that leverage these ideas.