Back in June, just before I went off for holiday, I attended a CFEngine training in Amsterdam. When I returned from holiday a few weeks later, me and my team started making plans to implement CFEngine in our environment. After two months of hard work, I’m proud to say we manage about 350 out of our 400 Linux servers with CFEngine!

The ride has been fun, although not always easy. In this post I’ll give a quick overview of our CFEngine implementation, where I found useful info, etc.

CFEngine is different
To start, let me tell you that one of the most difficult parts of learning CFEngine is to get used to the terminology and to ‘think’ CFEngine. For example, a ‘class’ in CFEngine is not what you think it is. It has nothing to do with object oriented programming. It’s more like a ‘context’ that you can use…