What's new in CFEngine 3.12
- 1. What’s new in CFEngine 3.12 LTS
- 3. CFEngine.com Policy Improvements in 3.12 Augments files: a better way to organize policy Improved templating engine! ❖ Makes upgrades and scaling easier ❖ Improved CI / CD workflow ❖ Easier segregation of your infrastructure! ❖ Increased security and stability of your prod system ❖ Solve problems faster ❖ Simpler to understand ❖ More efficient to manage ❖ Easier to change
- 4. CFEngine.com Expanded system discovery CFEngine leverages the standardized file /etc/os-release to do operating system discovery. This enables broad OS discovery, and new platforms are detected as classes and variables. ● Core OS ● Amazon Linux Grow your infrastructure quickly Detect platforms correctly immediately Leverage intended diversity as a strength Improved system discovery
- 5. CFEngine.com 3.12 has received a significant amount of code quality work ● We added LGTM tracking and resolved all issues. ● New memory checks integrated - both Valgrind and ASAN ● Improved and expanded the build and deployment test suite Improved Quality
- 7. CFEngine.com Reduce your time to knowledge! As infrastructure grows and becomes more complex, maintain overview, get answers quickly and propagate changes at any time. Consolidate all reports in Mission Portal! Separate hubs have many benefits such as multiple security zones, reduced latency, geographical grouping, and allows for more flexibly scaling. By maintaining a unified Mission Portal instance, you can query your entire infrastructure in a single interface! See all the information from all your hosts and hubs in one place! Major CFEngine users are growing the report size and #hubs in the network. We have now made sure that Mission Portal is responsive and fast at processing reports from up to 50 000 hosts! ● Provides you with a simple way to see your whole infrastructure ● Much more responsive UI for any size infrastructure
- 8. CFEngine.com Reduce fragmentation and security risks Plan and manage scale and functionality Track progress of many infrastructure metrics Fully understand the complexity in the environment, such as OS distribution, software versioning, application distribution and much more! ● New Inventory widget ● Inventory REST API ● New and improved reporting capabilities ● Track both out of the box and custom features! Improved Inventory overview OS information is available out-of-the-box
- 9. CFEngine.com Discover and drill down to any host using the new Global Search in CFEngine Mission Portal Enables you to Immediately access the host you need! ● Easily fix support issues! ● Improve uptime and responsiveness ● Improve operational efficiency Global search
- 10. CFEngine.com Track your progress on automation and cost-saving! Easily report on the improvements you make The new host count widget in Mission Portal provides a clear report on your progress! New types for bootstrap and decommission events in Event Log Easily track your progress
- 11. CFEngine.com CFEngine Health Monitoring Save time by more easily identifying root causes with CFEngine health Reduce downtime, fix erroneous reports and utilize your entire infrastructure by always having it working at peak capacity. Save time managing CFEngine – Avoid alert fatigue and simplify security monitoring, only emails reports that are not empty! – Set up scheduled security reports to fit your calendar – Get immediate notification on anything important to you – Improved default roles with access to a predefined set of reports out of the box
- 12. CFEngine.com ● Reduce false positives in your reports. ● Improve readability of your progress tracking! ● Easily create custom exceptions Improved functionality to exclude specific hosts from reports and searches High level of granularity More flexible report filtering
- 13. CFEngine.com New in 3.13, the Policy Analyser is a new feature with a lot of potential! We will continue to develop this in close collaboration with our customers. Please let us know what you think! CFEngine 3.13 – Policy Analyser Browse through all policy files Inspect the current version of policy in great detail Filter on hubs, Promiser, Promise Type and much more!