Thomas Ryd of CFEngine participated in a panel discussion regarding best practices and methodologies for Configuration Management. May 2013

1. Next generation IT operations
By Thomas Ryd, Co-founder & VP of Business Development

2. The evolution of the industry

3. Vision
Helping people manage a world of smart infrastructure

4. CFEngine 3
§ the Largest systems in the world
Architected to automate:

5. 200,000 physical servers
managed by CFEngine at 5minute interval

6. CFEngine 3
Architected to automate:
§ the Largest systems in the world
§ the most Complex systems in the world

7. CFEngine at 5minute interval
> 250K employees | > 300K end-points | > 30 datacenters | > 150 petabytes | > 50K servers

8. CFEngine 3
Architected to automate:
§ the Largest systems in the world
§ the most Complex systems in the world
§ the most Secure systems in the world

9. 1
CFEngine at 5minute interval
0Security vulnerabilities of CFEngine 3 since inception in 2009

10. CFEngine 3
Architected to automate:
§ the Largest systems in the world
§ the most Complex systems in the world
§ the most Secure systems in the world

11. CFEngine technology
§ Fully distributed
§ Strong DSL
§ Very lean architecture
§ Billions of daily compliance checks
§ Any device anywhere

12. High level illustration
1. Define Desired State
2. Ensure
Defined State
CFDB
3. Verify Actual State
Policy-
ServerDesign Center
Knowledge Center
CFE Agents

13. Defining next generation Lean IT-operations
“With CFEngine, I can define a new Software Defined Datacenter
and offer IAAS and PAAS to my customers within 10 minutes”,
Mike Svoboda – Lead Automation Engineer, Linkedin

14. “With CFEngine we constantly focus on reducing time-wastes
and improve the quality of our services. Everything is automated”,
Juliano Martinez – Senior System Engineer, Locaweb
Locaweb is the largest Cloud
provider in South America

15. Automating one
of the biggest
Banks

16. What’s next?
§ More IT service will become Mission-Critical
§ The next System Automation Engineer
§ Automate everything or die
§ Self-service everything