CFEngine Masterfiles Policy Framework: A short history and future direction

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1 MASTERFILES POLICY FRAMEWORK: A SHORT HISTORY AND FUTURE DIRECTION NICK ANDERSON Created: 2017-02-07 Tue 18:34

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2 . 1 FORK ME ON GITHUB! https://github.com/nickanderson/presentation-MPF-history

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3 . 1 INTRODUCTIONS

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3 . 2 MY NAME IS NICK. Wife, 2 kids, and a dog Sysadmin/Infrastructure Engineer You can find me online | [email protected] [email protected] twitter: @cmdln_ cmdln.org linkedin.com/in/hithisisnick How about you?

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4 . 1 WHAT IS THE MASTERFILES POLICY FRAMEWORK? MPF for short The default policy set A starting place to build upon Something that grew organically (at least from my perspective)

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5 . 1 MPF TIMELINE

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5 . 2 3.0 (2009) Example policy shipped in /usr/local/share/doc/cfengine/inputs promises.cf failsafe.cf update.cf library.cf site.cf

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5 . 3 3.1 (2010) Example policy shipped in /usr/local/share/doc/cfengine/inputs promises.cf failsafe.cf update.cf cfengine_stdlib.cf site.cf

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5 . 4 3.2 (2011) Example policy shipped in /usr/local/share/doc/cfengine/example_config promises.cf failsafe.cf update.cf cfengine_stdlib.cf site.cf

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5 . 5 3.3 (2012) The first hint of a base policy set Base policy shipped in /var/cfengine/share/CoreBase promises.cf failsafe.cf cfengine_stdlib.cf

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5 . 6 3.4 (2012) Base policy shipped in /var/cfengine/share/CoreBase Structure arrives: controls/.cf failsafe/failsafe.cf def.cf services/ libraries/cfengine_stdlib.cf cf-sketch-runfile.cf

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5 . 7 3.5 (2013) Base policy shipped in /var/cfengine/share/CoreBase controls/.cf failsafe/failsafe.cf def.cf services/ libraries/cfengine_stdlib.cf cf-sketch-runfile.cf

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5 . 8 3.6 (2014) … OH MY Moved out of core, into its own repository Testing added Stdlib rendered in docs Build/install with make Base policy shipped in /var/cfengine/share/CoreBase Used for both Enterprise and Community builds cfe_internal/ inventory/ lib/VER/ services/autorun/ update/

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5 . 9 3.7 - 3.9 (2015-2016) Reduce enterprise policies evaluated on non Enterprise agents Improved inline policy documentation 3.7.0 Augments file (def.json) introduced 3.7.4 augments parsing moved from policy to C 3.8 - Version split lib and controls re-combined 3.9 - No major structural changes

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5 . 10 3.10 (2016) MPF rendered in reference manual Formal naming convention for adjusting controls via augments control__key

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6 . 1 FOR THE FUTURE? More augmentation, less modification

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7 . 1 WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE? More augmentation, less modification https://github.com/cfengine/masterfiles/pull/860/files

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Created by Nick Anderson.