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CFEngine 3.18 LTS released - Extensibility

Today, we are pleased to announce the release of CFEngine 3.18.0! The focus of this new version has been extensibility. It also marks an important event, the beginning of the 3.18 LTS series, which will be supported for 3 years. Several new features have been added since the release of CFEngine 3.15 LTS, in the form of non-LTS releases. In this blog post we’ll primarily focus on what is new in 3.18, but we will also highlight some things released in 3.16 and 3.17.

Performance analysis for supported modules with Honeycomb

The Infrastructure Automation Content (IAC) team noticed some supported modules tests were taking significantly more time than others. David Schmitt, Principal Software Engineer on the IAC team, explains how Puppet utilises Honeycomb to debug our supported modules for potential performance bottlenecks.

Module development failure analysis with Honeycomb

Writing modules for yourself is easy, but writing modules for other people to use? Not so much. Failures in modules can have major repercussions, and our IAC team in Puppet takes that very seriously. Listen as David Schmitt and Daniel Carabas walk you through how we utilise Honeycomb for failure analysis with Github Actions during module development.

Southwest: What are the primary use cases for automations and how did you get started?

Hear from Southwest Airlines on how automation has not only positioned it to maximize its engineers' time, it has enabled Southwest to standardize and get predictive over the things that can virtually resolve themselves.