Mahesh Kumar, VP Marketing CFEngine
This month (literally tomorrow) at Velocity 2013 London Khushil Dep of the MailOnline will address the conference and present how his firm leverages CFEngine for their infrastructure management needs. As Khushil puts it “At the MailOnline we use CFEngine as the core of our configuration management. A way in which we describe our intentions in clear, precise and workable logic patterns which the Machine can understand without ambiguity.”
it would be incorrect to just call this out as a Velocity Conf ‘address’. You could look at it as a presentation or a tutorial or a product capabilities demonstration all rolled into one. What unfolds should be very interesting indeed. Khushil plans to build out infrastructure as part of his talk, explore the CFEngine language and fundamentals, showcase reusable patterns, and leave the audience with their appetite whetted enough to go try CFEngine on their own!
Expect Khushil to cover:
- What is CFEngine
- How does it work?
- What are promises really?
- Setting up a Linux machine and a SmartOS zone. They preferred deploying Joyent SmartOS over KVM or carving out VM’s on Amazon. Find out why MailOnline believes that Amazon and KVM do not deliver on a ‘cloud architecture’ promise
- Deploying software
- Deploying configuration
- Ideas for using cf-monitord metrics
- A tour of the Enterprise Portal
- A tour of how this all works at MailOnline
There is also a meetup planned for later in the night with Khushil and many other CFEngine engineers and users. Click on the link to get details about this meetup to be hosted at the Nomad Lounge, London We expect a good turnout and some robust discussions on the days proceedings as well as anything and everything CFEngine.
Do let us know what you thought about the conference, Khushil’s presentation and the meetup. Tweet @CFEngine with questions or comments!
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