CFEngine 3: Empowering The Next-Generation SysAdmin

5:30: food & bev

6:00: presentation

Speaker: Diego Zamboni

The days of maintaining systems by hand or as part of a large IT organization are clearly over.

Today's infrastructure is dynamic, personalized and malleable. Users expect changes to take effect immediately, and to be able to effect much of those changes themselves. The next generation of system administrator (SysAdmin 3.0) needs to be an "Infrastructure Engineer". He needs to deploy, configure and maintain complex applications and services across a breadth of servers, clients, clouds, networked devices, tablets, smart-phones and toasters. She needs tools that empower her to acquire and express knowledge about systems in a scalable, comprehensive and agile way.

Come learn about CFEngine 3 from the author of the new O'Reilly book on the subject. We'll explore how CFEngine’s autonomous policy agents can be set up to monitor, self-repair, and update the infrastructure of a global enterprise within minutes, with negligible impact on system resources or performance.

About the speaker:

Diego Zamboni is Senior Security Advisor at CFEngine AS, and the author of the book "Learning CFEngine 3" published by O'Reilly. He has more than 20 years of experience in system administration and security, and has worked in both the applied and theoretical sides of the computer science field. He holds a Ph.D. from Purdue University, has worked as a
sysadmin at a supercomputer center, as a researcher at the IBM Zurich Research Lab, and as a consultant at HP Enterprise Services. These days, he splits his time between coming up with new security-related projects at CFEngine, nurturing the CFEngine community, coding useful CFEngine policies, and spending time with his family. He lives in Queretaro,
Mexico with his wife and two daughters.