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Dispatching Ansible playbooks with CFEngine

Oct 21, 2026 By Lars Erik Wik In CFEngine
In large organizations and infrastructures, it’s fairly common to use multiple configuration management tools. There are many reasons for this. Different teams may have different preferences, some tools suit certain use cases better than others, and existing systems can come with their own limitations. Whatever the reason, the tools don’t have to work in isolation. In this post, we’ll show how to run Ansible playbooks on CFEngine-managed hosts using Mission Portal.
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What Happens When You Outgrow a No-Code AI Agent Builder?

Oct 20, 2026 By Derek Pascarella In Resolve
A no-code AI agent builder can get a defined agent into production quickly. The risk appears when added branches, exceptions, integrations, and controls exceed the visual canvas. Organizations should look for a platform that lets teams extend individual steps with reusable code without rebuilding the agent or abandoning its governance.
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How to End Tribal Knowledge and Make Every IT Practitioner an Expert

Oct 20, 2026 By Resolve In Resolve
Every IT organization has a small group of people who hold the answers everyone else depends on, and that dependency carries a cost that never appears on a dashboard. It shows up in constant interruptions, on-call rotations that keep routing back to the same names, investigations rebuilt from scratch every time an incident resurfaces, and the pressure carried by the one person who knows how the environment behaves under stress.
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Antivirus scanning with CFEngine and ClamAV

Oct 19, 2026 By Ihor Aleksandrychiev In CFEngine
Is the antivirus on your servers working correctly right now? Installing ClamAV takes a single command. The hard part is keeping it running on all servers, since freshclam fails without indicating a problem, cron jobs disappear, and no one notices until an audit. The new ClamAV module deals with this by ensuring that ClamAV remains operational on all hosts and also indicates to you in the Mission Portal when it isn’t.
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The Growing Divide Between Digital Simplicity and Real-World Complexity

The Growing Divide Between Digital Simplicity and Real-World Complexity

Oct 17, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
A banking app can approve a transaction in seconds. An AI assistant can produce a detailed report from a single instruction. Yet correcting a banking error or verifying an AI-generated report can take hours. This contradiction is becoming more visible as digital services grow easier to operate. Interfaces require fewer steps, but the processes behind them involve increasingly complicated systems, decisions, and responsibilities. The question is whether technology is eliminating complexity or simply moving it somewhere users cannot see.
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When AI Attacks at Machine Speed, Configuration Management Becomes Cybersecurity

Oct 16, 2026 By Puppet In Puppet
The Australian Medicare AI agent incident highlights a broader shift in cybersecurity. AI does not need to create new vulnerabilities to increase risk. Its ability to continuously discover, test, and pursue existing weaknesses places greater emphasis on maintaining secure configurations over time, not just fixing issues once. Security teams are used to the idea that determined attackers will keep looking for a way in.
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Automate Configuration Management and Drift Remediation at Scale

Oct 16, 2026 By Perforce Puppet In Puppet
Learn how Puppet Enterprise by Perforce automates configuration management, enforces desired state, and enables automatic drift remediation across Windows servers at scale. In this demo, Matthew, Associate Sales Engineer at Puppet, shows how to use Puppet Enterprise to deploy and manage Windows registry configurations across multiple servers from a single console. See how infrastructure as code helps eliminate manual configuration tasks, reduce human error, and maintain consistent system configurations across your environment.
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10 AIOps Automation Use Cases Transforming IT Operations

Oct 13, 2026 By Zack Austin In Resolve
AIOps is often discussed as a broad technology category. That framing can make it difficult for an IT operations leader to connect the concept with the problems consuming the team’s time today. The practical question is simpler: Where does your team repeatedly lose time between detecting an issue and resolving it? Maybe engineers are drowning in alerts.
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The Missing Workflow in Global Ecommerce Operations: Visual Asset Localization

The Missing Workflow in Global Ecommerce Operations: Visual Asset Localization

Oct 13, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
A product launch can appear ready in the project tracker while dozens of visual assets remain unfinished. The product page has been translated, but feature labels inside the images are still in the source language. The regional team has approved the campaign copy, yet the latest poster is sitting in a designer's inbox. A product specification changed after three language versions of the manual had already been prepared.
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How to Build a Reliable PDF Compression Workflow for Operations Teams

How to Build a Reliable PDF Compression Workflow for Operations Teams

Oct 13, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
A large PDF rarely looks like an operational problem until it blocks a routine task. A report exceeds an email attachment limit. A field technician struggles to open a manual over a mobile connection. A customer portal rejects an uploaded document. Staff then create smaller copies using different tools and settings, often without checking whether the result is still readable.
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