CFEngine 3 Beginner's Guide

Abstract

This book starts off with step-by-step instructions for installing and configuring the CFEngine server and clients, and then moves on to configuring systems using CFEngine scripts. The author then walks you through the policy decision flow as well as conducting system and security audits. This is followed by detailed discussions through various examples on how you can use CFEngine to configure systems, users, networks, databases, web servers, et al. Adding to this, the book also provides a list of best practices, CFEngine policy decision flow, and how you may use the CFEngine Orion Cloud Pack. By the end of the book you should be able to write policies to automate your complex data centre tasks.