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From cfEngine to Puppet: A retrospective

For several years I’ve managed to bend cfEngine 2.0’s architecture to my will.  Being an experienced Perl programmer, I was able to abuse the configuration language snytax in order to accomplish a number of strange things including Copy Back and automated management of OSSEC-HIDS.  However, there comes a point when the managing the cfengine configs [...]

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2009 01 18 brad Article Comments (1)

Copy Back with cfengine

I love cfengine. There are tons of resources out there for managing all kinds of common and uncommon system administration tasks. Rather than regurgitate all that information I wanted to share how I worked around what has been noted as a short coming of cfengine, clients copying information back to the master server.

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2007 05 03 brad Article Comments (1)