| Date: | August 13th, 2009 |
| Time: | 7pm |
| Place: | EE1 Building (Electrical Engineering) Room 403 University of Washington Campus |
| Directions: | http://www.ee.washington.edu/contact.html |
| Subject: | Cfengine 2: An introductory Overview |
| Presenter: | Scott Lackey |
Cfengine is probably the most widely deployed configuration management software and is widely considered to be the defacto standard. Since Cfengine is a highly customizable framework, it’s implementations can vary widely. This talk will be an overview of how cfengine works, and how to implement a basic setup. This talk will not cover Cfengine 3 or promise theory.
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Scott Lackey is a unix systems automation engineer who has ten years of consulting work for NASA, IBM, Caterpillar and other Fortune 500 companies. He is currently a systems engineer at Clearwire.