Intro to Automating System Administration with Cfengine 3
Take some of the headaches out of managing sever farms with Cfengine 3. Use this automation introduction to save time, money and spare yourself crippling manual mistakes.
As an organization adds more and more hosts, both physical and virtual, its system administrators must spend more and more time ensuring that all hosts comply with policy. This results in an explosive demand in staff resources. Organizations can often find themselves constantly falling behind, never able to finish projects on time or neglecting less visible infrastructure in order to deliver other highly visible projects. If you’re completely new to Cfengine, you might want to check out a bit of background articles before you dive into complex configuration scripts.
Otherwise, let’s get started. Cfengine allows system administrators to control servers from a central location. Administrators are able to make a single manual change and have that change automatically deployed to all desired hosts across the network. Cfengine continuously ensures that these changes are applied. This can save an…
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