CFEngine has been at the forefront of innovation in Configuration Management since the start of the 1990s, and CFEngine’s CTO and Founder Mark Burgess has been writing a lot about the history of those ideas as well as the vision of configuration management going forward. CFEngine is not a company that rests on its laurels. This year our CTO will be giving a number of talks about the Future of Open Source Configuration Management, this will be worth catching: first at the SCALE 9x conference in Los Angeles, and later at the UKUUG Spring Conference in the UK, as well as a number of guest appearances. We recommend: