Next Meeting: August 13th, 2009 at 7pm

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.