Introduction to Automating System Administration using CFEngine 3

Atlanta, GA

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Aleksey Tsalolikhin of http://www.verticalsysadmin.com/ invites you to a free "Introduction to Automating System Administration with CFEngine 3" (modern policy-based declarative language for describing the desired/intended configuration of your systems) class on Sunday, March 11th,  7:00 pm - 9:00 pm at Atlanta Freeside hackerspace (http://wiki.freesideatlanta.org/the-space).

 

There'll be a social dinner (onsite) from 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM.   Food and drinks will be provided courtesy of CFEngine, Inc.

 

Please register for the event so we can send you the gate code to get in.

 

ABOUT CFENGINE

 

CFEngine software automates large-scale IT computing infrastructure: ensuring the availability, security and compliance of mission-critical applications and services. Based on a popular and flexible open source standard, CFEngine configuration management products are highly scalable through decentralized, autonomous agents that can continuously monitor, self-repair, and update a global multi-site enterprise every five minutes -- with negligible impact on system resources or performance. 

CFEngine solutions are used by global organizations such as AT&T, Cisco, eBay, LinkedIn, AMD, the U.S. Navy, and five of the 10 largest banks on Wall Street to manage servers, desktops and other heterogeneous computing devices.  Built upon well-established theory and high-quality engineering practices, CFEngine enjoys an outstanding security record over its 18-year history.


 ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Aleksey has been a UNIX/Linux system administrator for 14 years. Wrangling EarthLink's server farms by hand during growth from 1,000 to 5,000,000 users, he developed an abiding interest in improving the lot of system administrators through configuration management, documentation, and personal efficiency training. 

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