Post on 17-May-2015
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SELF-HEALING DATACENTER SOLUTION
Cfengine Reborn – Keeping Promises
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Some users of Cfengine
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The future is not certain
• We encourage it but we do not decide it
• It is about simple patterns that are robust
• There are no guarantees, but we can try to keep promises
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Configuration Management
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Based on Promise Theory research
Puts goals not recipes in focus
– Goals are invariants, recipes depend on circumstances
– Simple connection to “Service Level Agreements”
– Easy to measure compliance A promise is a documentation item
– Knowledge integration
Promise Technology
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Cfengine aspects
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Promises focus on the end state (desired state) not on fragile procedures and baselines
We automate repair using Cfengine's published convergence principle
Convergence = self-healing
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Every node is responsible for its own state
– Allows flat scalability (no bottlenecks)
– Allows detailed adaptation to local environment (each host knows its own environment best)
Hosts subscribe to external resources they need
– Software Package manager integration
– Policy updates from orchestrator when available
Push attacks a system, pull grants autonomy to all parts of the network and it fault tolerant of network outage (for wireless, pervasive, field operations etc)
Pull not push – scale and security
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Agile, elastic scaling
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Knowledge Management
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Reporting – Knowledge Management
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Unique self-building documentation
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Cfengine Nova Extras
• Now
– One touch bootstrap
– Self-knowledge / analysis document integration
– Ultra lightweight monitoring integrated
– Native cross-platform support includes Windows
– Enhanced security (FIPS)
– Directory service integration with fault tolerance
– Virtualization and elastic scaling support
• 3-6 months
– Cfengine 2 to Nova conversion
– GUI “helm” single point of contact and change
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The Company and Partners
Cfengine ASOsloNorway
Cfengine IncTampaUSA
Tel: +47 22 95 85 00Fax: +47 22 60 44 27
Mail: Contact@cfengine.com