Demo Videos, Webinars & Keynotes
This page contains video presentations demonstrating key capabilities of CFEngine Community and Enterprise editions.
CFEngine and Change Detection
CFEngine offers extensive tripwire functionality. Combined with CFEngine auto-repair functionality you can ensure policy compliance on files and directories. In this video you will see how CFEngine detects file creation, file change and fil...
CFEngine and Apache Webserver
This demo shows you how CFEngine can manage one Apache webserver to ensure server availability and uptime. Use policies to define how to manage your webservers, and CFEngine will make sure your webserver are compliant with your policies. Av...
CFEngine and Windows Registry
This demo shows you how CFEngine can manage the Windows registry. With CFEngine you can make sure the registry always stays compliant with your policies. Manage the whole registry or just specific keys and / or key-values.
CFEngine and PXE Boot
CFEngine manages your servers and networks of machines throughout the life-cycle. Use CFEngine during the build and deploy phase by creating PXE-boot servers controlled and deployed by CFEngine. Based on policies you can turn any server int...
The Orion Cloud Pack
Three Steps you need to bring reliability and efficiency to Managed Services running out of the Amazon Cloud. Set up and tear down machines as you like, and bring instant configuration and compliance, with self-healing to your business.
CFEngine Computer-Process Management
Use CFEngine to manage your computer-processes. Use application-availability policies to ensure uptime at all times. CFEngine starts, deletes and/or restart processes, all according to your policies. In this video we will show how CFEngine ...
CFEngine DNS Resolver
This clip shows how cfengine can deal with a very common issue in network configuration: setting up the name-server bindings. DNS configuration is sometimes done by DHCP, but statically configured servers can be maintained by CFEngine direc...
CFEngine on Windows
In this demo we will show you how we use CFEngine to return a windows machine to its policy mandated state, by deleting unapproved software, adding required software and tweaking firewall and automatic updates settings, as well as deleting ...
CFEngine on Android
In this demo we will show you how CFEngine returns our Android Phone to the required state, and makes sure it stays compliant with our company's policy
Mssion Portal redundancy
In this demo we will show you how CFEngine can cooperate with Database failovers and quickly adjust to the changing conditions
Scalability
In this demo we will show you how we use CFEngine to easily scale to at least 1000 hosts and collect reports from all of them within a few seconds. In recent production deployment CFEngine is running with more than 1800 hosts
Private Cloud Management with CFEngine Nova
In this demo we will show you how CFEngine Nova can be used to manage a private cloud. We will create virtual machines, register them to a policy hub, and finally undefine the virtual machines.
Authentication Schemes
This clip shows how CFEngine 3 Nova can use different authentication schemes. You will see CFEngine 3 Nova's internal authentication scheme, how to add a group and a user, and how to use LDAP as our authentication scheme.
File Change
The clip shows the file change detection capabilities of CFEngine 3 Nova. We will make change in one of the files CFEngine is watching, and the reporting that shows the change.
CFE Client Install
The clip shows how we install a CFEngine client through the CFEngine 3 Nova Mission Portal.
Policy Editor
A guided tour of CFEngine 3 Nova's policy editor. You'll see keyword highlighting, code completion, syntax checking, committing a policy. We will go to the hub and check our policy, incorporate our policy into the promise file.
Promises Not Kept
This clip shows a debugging scenario with CFEngine 3 Nova, using the promises not kept report on the Mission Portal.
DB Editing & Verification with CFEngine 3 Nova
In this demo we will show you how use CFEngine with multiple instances on Amazon EC2. Aleksey Tsalolikhin (Vertical SysAdmin)
CFEngine 3 Nova on Embedded Devices
In this demo, we show CFEngine running on a non-Intel-based embedded hardware device with a touch screen, as used in storage devices, ATMs, domestic controllers and robots. CFEngine Nova bootstraps like any other computer and reports to the...
Introduction to CFengine 3 Nova
Designed for SysAdmins and their managers, this 60-minute Webinar presents and demonstrates the advanced capabilities in the newest version of CFEngine Nova. Presented on November 2, 2011 by Mark Burgess.
CFEngine 2 to CFEngine 3
In this Webinar, we go through the steps required to successfully upgrade your CFEngine 2 environment to CFEngine 3.
Multi-node deployment, configuration and integration on Amazon EC2
In this demo we will show you how use CFEngine with multiple instances on Amazon EC2. Aleksey Tsalolikhin (Vertical SysAdmin)
Upgrading from CFEngine 2 to CFEngine 3 - A Demo
CFEngineer Joe Netzel shows the steps required to upgrade from CFEngine 2 to CFEngine 3 with a live demo!
3 Myths and 3 Challenges to Bring System Administration out of the Dark Ages
"3 Myths and 3 Challenges to Bring System Administration out of the Dark Ages", by Mark Burgess, CFEngine
Velocity 2011: Mark Burgess, "Change = Mass x Velocity, and Other Laws of Infrastructure"
"The key challenges for infrastructure designers and maintainers today are scale, speed and complexity". Mark Burgess, Velocity 2011
Mark Burgess, "The Promise of System Configuration"
Mark Burgess, Google Tech Talks November 5, 2008
Mark Burgess on CFEngine 2 and CFEngine 3
Mark Burgess on CFEngine 2 and CFEngine 3 January 25, 2012
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