Are you a CFEngine user in sunny Los Angeles interested in learning more about the new CFEngine Enterprise 3.6.0? If so, you should definitely look into attending a joint meetup being held by the LA CFEngine User Group and the League of Professional System Administrators (LOPSA) next Tuesday, July 8th, at 7pm in the Marina Del Ray area. CFEngine System Engineer Nick Anderson will be at the event to speak about some of the new and enhanced features of CFEngine Enterprise 3.6.0, such as enhanced inventory and reporting capabilities, improved templating, and new language abstractions. He will also be available to answer any CFEngine questions you might have. You can learn more and register here. We hope to see you there next week!
We had a fantastic webinar last month with CFEngine CTO Mark Burgess and guest speaker Forrester Research, Inc. Vice President and Research Director Glenn O’Donnell. During this wide-ranging discussion, Mark and Glenn discussed the concept of continuous operations, and how great service design combined with automation can empower organizations to survive and thrive in what is becoming known as “The Age of the Customer.” Mark also talked about Promise Theory and gave a short look at CFEngine Enterprise 3.6.0. Be sure to check out the recording here!
There is still time to register for one of our upcoming “Introduction to CFEngine Enterprise 3.6.0” webinars being held next Tuesday and Wednesday. By attending one of these live webinars, you will learn how CFEngine Enterprise 3.6.0 can help you:
Proactively alert on policy drifts in your environment through a simple-to-use, configurable dashboard Gain comprehensive visibility into your IT infrastructure with enhanced compliance and extensible inventory reporting Leverage new language abstractions to improve administration productivity Achieve painless integration with other IT systems using native JSON support Please visit our registration pages to learn more and sign up today:
Are you interested in learning more about WebScale IT and its increasing relevance to the enterprise datacenter? If so, you should definitely check out the global online event ‘WebScale Wednesday’ being hosted this week by Nutanix. Our CTO and Co-founder Mark Burgess will be participating in this event alongside pioneers and practitioners from companies such as Dell, Twitter, and Citrix for an engaging and interactive discussion around WebScale IT and how it is making its way into the mainstream datacenter. The event streams live from 9am to noon this Wednesday, June 25th, and there are various sessions throughout the morning you can choose to attend. You can learn more about the agenda and speakers at the registration page here. Sign up before the event and get a free t-shirt - we hope to see you there!
Continuing an extremely hectic month at CFEngine we are wrapping up the month by sponsoring DevOpsDays Silicon Valley which is being held at the Computer History Museum. With an impressive array of sponsors and many attendees this will hopefully be an event to remember. So what will CFEngine be doing at DevOpsDays? Well, after lots of hard work CFEngine 3.6.0 has finally been released so we’ll be showcasing that and explaining how we can help you in your DevOps journey. Mark Burgess will be presenting at the event. It’s my first time seeing Mark present at DevOpsDays as a CFEngine employee. I saw an awesome session by Mark at DevOpsDays London last year which certainly influenced my decision to join CFEngine. I hope Mark’s session leaves a lasting impression on those of you attending too! The real magic of DevOpsDays is the open space sessions, although for me the ignite sessions are also special because the content is so varied, although this time I have decided not to submit an ignite session, I need a break! I’m sure the open spaces will be enlightening as usual and I’m looking forward to Mark proposing an open space on the future of configuration management. There were many unanswered questions from his presentation of the SVDevOps meetup as well as some lively discussion making it perfect for an open space! Look forward to seeing you next week!
Big news today - I am happy to share the news that CFEngine Enterprise 3.6.0 has been released! This release is a huge step forward for our company and our customers, with a number of both new and enhanced features designed for providing a secure, scalable, and reliable foundation for IT automation. Customers and users are crucial when it comes to feedback and continuous improvement. The fact that CFEngine 3.6.0 leapfrogs the competition across many facets is testament to an innovative development team working in tandem with customers experiencing and solving real world IT issues together. With 3.6.0 we have addressed some key needs you put forth:
There is still time to register for our upcoming webinar with Forrester Research this Thursday! Please join CFEngine Co-Founder and CTO Mark Burgess and guest speaker Forrester Research, Inc. Vice President and Research Director Glenn O’Donnell for a fascinating look into the principles of continuous operations and service management - and how great service design combined with automation can empower your organization to survive and thrive in what is becoming known as “The Age of the Customer.”
Earlier this week CFEngine sponsored DockerCon. Let me start by congratulating Docker on an awesome show. The energy, and enthusiasm was contagious but more so sincere. The commitment to establishing open standards without locking in users to Docker is commendable. The CFEngine table had heavy traffic and the conversations were frequently in depth. Attendees were not only wanting to know what value CFEngine adds on top of Docker but also what guidance on how others are using Docker. People we talked to understood the need to have a solution that could manage not only Docker containers but also their other physical and virtual infrastructure. We had very positive feedback on how we integrated Docker configurations into our CFEngine policies. For those of you who may be unaware Docker finally reached 1.0 status, which means the warning about running in production no longer applies, not that being pre 1.0 stopped the Docker community running Docker in production! Some key takeaways for me were
CFEngine are sponsoring DockerCon14. We’re excited to be able to show you how CFEngine and Docker can be used together to help manage your docker containers and make sure that you don’t go back down the path of golden images! If that isn’t enough to get you excited our very own Diego Zamboni is flying in from Mexico for the event. Stop by and have a chat with Diego about CFEngine, security or anything else. Diego will also be signing copies of Learning CFEngine 3. We look forward to seeing you there.
DevOpsDays events in Pittsburgh and Austin have both been awesome. It’s great to see the events maturing over time. While it was the first DevOpsDays event in Pittsburgh the organizers were familiar with DevOpsDays events and made sure that they built on top of other successes. The lack of “Idol worshipping” aka “we love Amazon, Etsy, Facebook, Netflix” was refreshing! We were treated to excellent sessions covering culture, PaaS, docker and other great topics. As long as you are in tech I’m certain there was plenty to interest you. The ignite sessions again were fun as always. There were some fun moments and some awkward moments! I presented my ignite session from DevOpsDays Austin on why DevOpsDays is failing horses and unicorns. Eventually I’ll track down a video of it and link to it, but it was well received. The awkward moment was that I presented after Nathan Harvey of Chef. He preached the familiar unicorn cry of “if you aren’t happy quit your job”. My ignite session has a slide that made fun of unicorns telling horses to quit their jobs and go work with unicorns because it really isn’t helpful at all. There was a great open space session on diversity in tech which could have gone on for hours. It was constructive and we all realize there is a problem. While DevOpsDays PGH wasn’t incredibly diverse it was heartening to see a significant number of women attending and presenting. In particular I’m looking forward to seeing Bridget Kromhout (@bridgetkromhout) and Cornelia Davis (@cdavisafc) present again. Awareness of CFEngine is growing, and we are getting recognition in presentations once again. People really seem pleased that we are still around and doing some awesome things. I can’t wait until DevOpsDays Silicon Valley when we can talk about some really cool stuff we have coming! June will be a very busy month for CFEngine. We’ll be at DockerCon, Velocity Santa Clara and DevOpsDays Silicon Valley.
