Regular expressions can vary from simple to WTF. Usually they tend toward the latter. What most don't realized, or are too lazy to use, is that regular expressions can be made to include friendly whitespace and comments. CFEngine is no exception.
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It's a dirty secret that few test their CFEngine policies, and fewer still test them well. Now EFL has two bundles for testing that produce TAP output.
Continue reading Testing CFEngine policy using EFL, TAP, and Perl...
Take confidence that EFL is tested with each change and against each new CFEngine release. We have more than 170 tests. Have confidence in using EFL in your production environment.
Good news everyone. CFEngine 3.7 has revamped packages promises making them simpler and more reliable. These new promises are now used in EFL with the bundle efl_packages_new. The bundle's parameter file looks like this:
I've been using a talking about Serverspec lately. Let me tell you about the surprises I found.
Continue reading Serverspec, the good, the bad, and the ugly...