Tutorials and Newsletter

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• CFEngine Essentials, a tutorial containing over 200 runnable CFEngine examples.

• CFEngine Vocabulary Primer, an overview of the most used parts of the CFEngine language.
• CFEngine Agent Attributes, a comprehensive yet compact reference.
• Functions Overview, a summary of 100+ built-in functions.

 

Videos

• CFEngine 101 webinar series (Feb 2014)
  • IT Automation with CFEngine: Business Values and Basic Concepts (45 min)
  • Getting Started with CFEngine (1 hour)
• “Automating Database System Administration with CFEngine 3” (46 min) at PgDay Denver, 21 October 2011
• Presentation to Cascadia IT Conference, 12 Mar 2011 (screencast of EC2 system integration demo)

Articles

• “High-Level Configuration Management with CFEngine Sketches”, 25 Dec 2012
• “Security monitoring and enforcement with CFEngine 3” in Linux Journal, May 2011 | Source code
• “Configuration Management Summit” in USENIX ;login: magazine, Oct 2010
• “Relative Origin of CFEngine, Puppet and Chef”, Sep 2010
• “The State of Open Source System Automation” in Linux-Mag.com, 19 Aug 2010
• “Intro to Automating System Administration with CFEngine 3” in Linux-Mag.com, 8 June 2010

Directories

• Professional Services Directory