#cfgmgmtcamp

1 and 2 February 2016

Gent, Belgium

Using ncf building blocks to help writing CFEngine policies

Alexis Mousset, Benoit Peccatte - Tuesday, February 2, 14:40-15:20 - B3.036

ncf is a configuration framework written in pure CFEngine, started in 2013, with the aim of providing reusable, single purpose high-level components to help structure your CFEngine policy. It also comes with a web interface easily edit configuration policies.

During this talk, we will first briefly present recent improvements in the ncf 1.0 release. Then we will focus on how to setup ncf from scratch and how you can integrate it gradually into your CFEngine policy and what benefits it can bring.

Slides

Using ncf building blocks to help writing CFEngine policies from Normation

About Alexis Mousset

Alexis Mousset is a Rudder developer and contributor to CFEngine since 2015. He works for Normation.

About Benoît Peccatte

Benoit Peccatte is a Rudder developer, the open source IT automation and compliance tool, employed by Normation. He worked as a developer for several years before returning to his preferred field of system administration, where he has been almost exclusively using and hacking open source tools for the past 8 years. He is now combining these two experiences to improve Rudder (http://www.rudder-project.org).