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Feature Friday #35: Groups in Mission Portal

Have you seen the new Groups feature in CFEngine Enterprise Mission Portal? It was first released in 3.23.0 and it’s part of the 3.24 LTS series released earlier this year, let’s check it out. Groups in Mission Portal can be based on any host reported data. They can be dynamic (hosts can come and go from a group) or they can be static and tied to specific hosts by hostname, mac address, IP or CFEngine’s public key.

Our Plans for Open Source Puppet in 2025

In early 2025, Puppet will begin to ship any new binaries and packages developed by our team to a private, hardened, and controlled location. Our intention with this change is not to limit community access to Puppet source code, but to address the growing risk of vulnerabilities across all software applications today while continuing to provide the security, support, and stability our customers deserve.

Feature Friday #34: Self organizing groups with select_class

Did you know CFEngine can self-organize hosts into different groups? Say you have a few hosts that you want to reboot once a month. You don’t care when, but you want the hosts to self-organize and pick a date. The select_class attribute for classes type promises might be what you’re looking for. Let’s take a look.

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Beyond Automation: Empowering Human Skills in an AI-First Workplace

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