Why Upgrade to CFEngine 3?
- Simplifies & extends CFEngine 2 -- using 10x less code
- More consistent in syntax & behavior
- Supports more operating systems/platforms
- Greater scalability with less system resources
- Does not require "under the hood" programming to extend the language
- Does not hard-code configuration details
- Enables greater agility: update entire enterprise within 5 minutes
- New tools for debugging & testing
For over a decade, CFEngine 2 became nearly-ubiquitous open source configuration management software, used by thousands of companies worldwide to help automate common system administration tasks.
In 2009, CFEngine 3 was released -- a complete re-write of the product, able to precisely manage the complexity and scale of today's modern IT infrastructure.
CFEngine 3 is now the most advanced configuration management platform available, designed to ensure the availability, security and compliance of mission-critical applications and services. CFEngine 3 is highly scalable through decentralized, autonomous agents that can continuously monitor, self-repair, and update a global multi-site enterprise every five minutes -- with negligible impact on system resources or performance.
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Learning CFEngine 3CFEngine 3 is the most mature and widely used tool for comprehensive configuration management, and Learning CFEngine 3 will help you in getting up to speed with it. The main audience for this book is experienced system administrators of null-to-medium expertise with CFEngine, although more advanced CFEngine users will also find useful snippets and techniques. |
Book Reviews:
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I've read through the preview of the first four chapters and must say that this book looks great. It explains the terminology of CFEngine very well. I've used CFEngine 2 for several years, but the change to version 3 had a large learning curve. This book definitely helped to lessen the curve and help me to develop new promises quickly. I would strongly recommend this book to anyone trying to learn CFEngine 3.