Learning CFEngine 3
Automated system administration for sites of any size
1st Edition
Published on 24. April 2012
Book
249 pages
978-1-4493-1220-6 (ISBN)
Description
Get up to speed on CFEngine 3, the open source configuration management software that enables you to automate everything from one-server shops to enterprise computer networks. This hands-on introduction shows you how to use CFEngine 3 to implement and manage and your IT infrastructure in a sustainable, scalable, and efficient manner.
Through numerous examples, you'll learn how to use CFEngine to perform tasks such as user management, software installation, and security. You'll also learn how to focus on higher-level issues of design, implementation and maintenance, knowing that CFEngine is handling the lower-level details for you automatically.
* Discover how far you can go with system automation, using CFEngine
* Become familiar with the software's principles, components, and policy structure
* Configure CFEngine step-by-step to perform routine tasks on your system
* Specify custom machine configuration without making changes by hand
* Get tricks and patterns that you can use in your own CFEngine policies
* Maintain separate CFEngine environments for development, testing, production, or other uses
Through numerous examples, you'll learn how to use CFEngine to perform tasks such as user management, software installation, and security. You'll also learn how to focus on higher-level issues of design, implementation and maintenance, knowing that CFEngine is handling the lower-level details for you automatically.
* Discover how far you can go with system automation, using CFEngine
* Become familiar with the software's principles, components, and policy structure
* Configure CFEngine step-by-step to perform routine tasks on your system
* Specify custom machine configuration without making changes by hand
* Get tricks and patterns that you can use in your own CFEngine policies
* Maintain separate CFEngine environments for development, testing, production, or other uses
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Diego is a computer scientist, consultant, programmer, sysadmin and overall geek who lives in Mexico with his awesome wife and two beautiful daughters. He works at HP Mexico as a consultant, mostly in topics related to computer security, virtualization, configuration management and system automation. Diego pursued his Ph.D. at Purdue University under the direction of Gene Spafford. Upon finishing his studies, Diego moved to Switzerland for a time, where he worked as a researcher in computer security at the IBM Zurich Research Lab.