Aleksey's CFEngine Resources
Most Recommended Resources - For Those Starting with CFEngine 3
"Guide to CFEngine 3 Body of Knowledge"
"Getting Started 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
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Source code
"Guide to CFEngine 3 Body of Knowledge", Sep 2011
Books
Getting Started with CFEngine 3 (DRAFT)
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
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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)
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Source code
CFEngine 3 class at Ohio Linux Fest 2010
CFEngine 2 presentation to UUASC LA on 1 Oct 2009
CFEngine policy source code
CFEngine Examples
CFEngine 3 Shared Configs Index (including example of multi-node orchestration)
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
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