Aleksey's CFEngine Resources
Most Recommended Resources - For Those Starting with CFEngine 3
Articles
- "Intro to Automating System Administration with CFEngine 3" in Linux-Mag.com, 8 June 2010
- "State of the Art of Automating System Administration with Open Source Configuration Management Tools", 9 July 2010
- "The State of Open Source System Automation" in Linux-Mag.com, 19 Aug 2010
- "Relative Origin of CFEngine, Puppet and Chef", Sep 2010
- "Configuration Management Summit" in USENIX ;login: magazine, Oct 2010
- "Security monitoring and enforcement with CFEngine 3" in Linux Journal, May 2011 | Source code
- "Guide to CFEngine 3 Body of Knowledge", Sep 2011
Books
Aleksey's Trainings
- "Automating Database System Administration with CFEngine 3" at PgDay Denver, 21 October 2011
- "Automating Database System Administration with CFEngine 3" at PgWest 2011 in San Jose, 30 September 2011
- "CFEngine 3 Overview" at LA DevOps meetup, 1 August 2011
- "Introduction to Automating System Administration with CFEngine 3" at Portland Linux Users Group, 18 June 2011
- "Introduction to Automating System Administration with CFEngine 3" at USENIX, 17 June 2011 | Source code
- Presentation to Cascadia IT Conference, 12 Mar 2011 (screencast of EC2 system integration demo)
- "Introduction to Automating System Administration with CFEngine" class at SCaLE 9x on 25 Feb 2011
- CFEngine 3 class at LOPSA LA, 21 Oct 2010 (2:41 hour video, courtesy of Media Temple) | Source code
- CFEngine 3 class at Ohio Linux Fest 2010
- CFEngine 2 presentation to UUASC LA on 1 Oct 2009
CFEngine policy source code
Other CFEngine Resources
- Mark Burgess's Overview of CFEngine from Configuration Management 2010 Summit
- Paper by Mark Burgess introducing CFEngine 1
- "Hit the ground running... with CFENGINE" by Ed Brown of Los Alamos National Laboratory, LISA 2005 presentation on CFengine 2
- CFEngine.com Demo Videos
- Neil Watson's vim syntax highlighter for cf3
- The Lifecycle of a (Physical) Machine diagram from "An Analysis of UNIX System Configuration" (LISA 1997 paper)
- Brendan Strejcek's "Managing the network with CFEngine"
- Configuration Management under FreeBSD with CFEngine 3
- "Puppet and CFEngine compared: time and resource consumption" by Jarle Bjoergeengen in Feb 2010 issue of USENIX ;login: magazine
- "A Survey of System Configuration Tools" LISA 2010 paper. See especially Section 4.1, "How do I choose a tool for my environment?"
- "Getting Started with Configuration Management" by Cory Lueninghoener in April 2011 issue of USENIX ;login: magazine
