Title: Learning CFEngine 3: Automated system administration for sites of any size
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Publication Date: 2012
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1449312209
ISBN 13: 9781449312206
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis

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

About the Author

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.

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