After 2 productive days at Devopsdays Toronto I've been thinking more about how to test CFEngine policy. Not just prototype, but production tests too. The ideal situation is that a machine tests your would-be production policy and then deploys it fully if the test suite passes. This is completely automatic. How do we get there?
Delta Reporting and CFEngine are not centralized applications. Yes, I do describe DR as centralized reporting for CFEngine, but that is a simplistic view for easy consumption. Both CFEngine and Delta Reporting are far more flexible.
Continue reading Delta Reporting and CFEngine are NOT centralized applications...
Zero downtime and zero data loss in six months of Delta Reporting in production at Evolve Thinking. And DR is just getting better. In those six months we've added a dashboard, promises summary reports, an extensive development test suite, and promise and host trending graphs. And today we release 2.6 with improved SQL injection protection.
It was nice meeting everyone last night. Here is the slide deck.
Part 3 of CFEngine best practices.
Continue reading CFEngine best practices: deployment, upgrades, and scaling...