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IT Automation at WebScale with CFEngine 3.6.0

Andrew YeungDirector, Product ManagementJuly 1, 2014

Agenda

• IT Automation at WebScale• What’s New in Version 3.6.0• Demo• Q&A

IT Automation at WebScale

Intelligent Infrastructure Automation

Agile, secure and scalablePolicy-driven and convergent

Simple, self-service consumption

Policy-based Application Deployment

Repeatable and error-freeManage local or cloud-based

infrastructureDeliver on platform

standardization

Continuous Operations and Self-healing

Complete visibility and alerting

Compliance with self-healingOOTB inventory and

reporting

Simplify the delivery and management of the on-going operations of the software stack anywhere and across any device in a timely and predictive fashion

Scale Speed Security Stability

CFEngine’s Heritage10,000+ Customers across 100+ countries

10 million+ servers managed200,000 nodes managed at a single customer

Market-leading scalability, securability, & reliability

Distributed, Lightweight Architecture

1. Define Desired State

2. Ensure Desired State

HUB

3. Verify Actual State

CFEngine Hub

Design Center

MissionPortal

CFE Agents

Policy Language

Diverse Set of Use Cases

Deliver Managed Services and PaaS

Streamline Application Release

Create and Support an IaaS platform

Server Automation at Scale

Maintain consistency and standardization to achieve high SLA

Capitalize on speed to deliver value faster to end users

Meet increased business expectations of IT while driving down costs

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…and many more

Our Customers’ Wish List

“Automation is fantastic, but we

need comprehensive visibility and control

of our sprawling heterogeneous environment”

“We need a simplified user experience that

would provide immediate value with

out-of-the-box capabilities like alerts

and reporting.”

“Scale and speed are increasingly important in order to support my growing cloud and on-premise infrastructure

footprint.”

Give Administrators Actionable Insight

Do I have the latest software packages

installed?

Am I adhering to our compliance policies?

Do I have the latest patches installed?

Visualize Your Environment, Stay Informed

• Simple-to-use, configurable dashboard• Alert on events that require attention• Tracking and recorded system events• Drill down to diagnose and take action accordingly

Instant visibility, comprehensive coverage, exact data

Manage Custom Compliance Policies

• Rules based on inventory data, available patches, software packages and CFEngine policies

• Assign priorities for each rule• Send alerts based on policy

breaches

Be proactively alerted on policy drift to ensure system consistency and resiliency to support mission critical environments.

Filter on self discovered objects and external data sources

Cross Environment

Cross Applications Cross Clouds Entire SW

Stack

Extensible Inventory Reports

Combine CFEngine’s flexible policy language with an intuitive UI

Do More With Less

Better language abstractions, new functions = more efficiency and less coding

90% reduction in coding!

Native JSON Support

• Interoperability between disparate management systems

• Supports read and write of JSON objects

Facilitate automated end-to-end system integration use cases through simple data interchange

3rd-party systemse.g.

Mustache*-based File Templating

• Simply specify template_method as “mustache”

• Pass data container to the template_data attribute

* Mustache - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustache_(template_system)

Simplify configuration file management using common logic-less templating format

Managed OSes

Enterprise APIs

CFEngine Hub

Mission Portal

3.6.0 WebScale Enhancements

• New PostgreSQL Backend supports thousands of managed OSes per hub

• Multi-Hub architecture

• Vastly improved collection speed based on delta collection

• Drastic performance improvement of both Mission Portal UI and APIs

Managed OSes Managed OSes

Dev Test Prod

Prior to 3.6.0: Lean, Distributed, Autonomous, C based minimal dependencies

WebScale Architecture

Redis key-value

PostgreSQL

Hub

What Users Are Saying about 3.6.0

“Congrats to the CFEngine development team. This has been the most epic and stress tested release to date. Its certainly production ready. We will be upgrading production to 3.6 in the next several weeks. Thank you for the hard work and dedication! You guys made sure that 3.6 was rock solid. It’s without a doubt the best stable major release yet. =) Cheers! Keep shipping!Mike”Mike Svoboda, Senior Systems and Automation Engineer, LinkedIn

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DEMO

Take It For A Spin!

Download CFEngine Enterprise free for up to 25 nodes!http://cfengine.com/product/free-download/

Check out our video tutorials @ http://cfengine.com/learn

Or try our prepackaged CFEngine environment using Vagrant

Download and unzip the Vagrant project

$ cd <location of vagrant_env>

$ vagrant up

…and you are all set!!

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Summary

Significant dashboard, visualization and reporting enhancements

Robust change, compliance and inventory capabilities

Enhanced abstractions and integrations

Numerous architectural enhancements

CFEngine 3.6.0 is the preferred cross-environment, cross-cloud, cross-OS automation solution

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