CFEngine January '12 Newsletter: Free CFEngine Webinar, New O'Reilly Book

• Free Webinar: Migrating from CFEngine 2 to CFEngine 3 -- Migrating from CFEngine 2 to CFEngine 3 is easier than you think!
  In this Webinar, we will go through the steps required to successfully migrate your CFEngine 2 environment to CFEngine 3. Topics covered in this Webinar will include... read more »
• New Quickstart Guide -- we have developed this new document to help new users get up-&-running with CFEngine 3.
• What makes clouds float and developers operative? Agility! -- a blog post by Mark Burgess -- In IT, the challenge of the environment is the jungle of changing demand, business imperatives, and the striving for competitive fitness in a cut-throat marketplace; it is network requests to servers, spanning a landscape of different operating systems and their curiosities... read More »
• O'Reilly's new book, 'Learning CFEngine 3' -- by Diego Zamboni is in early release. "CFEngine 3 is the most mature and widely used tool for comprehensive configuration management, and Learning CFEngine 3 will help you in getting up to speed with it..." Purchase it from the O'Reilly Shop. -- use code AUTHD for a special discount.
• Take our 'CFEngine in the Cloud' Survey

January 19 -- Bay Area LISA SysAdmin group, Mark Burgess speaking on "SysAdmin 3.0: The Infrastructure Engineer", Mountain View

January 20-22 -- SCALE: The Southern California Linux Expo, Los Angeles

January 25 -- Free Webinar: Migrating from CFEngine 2 to CFEngine 3

January 25-27 -- CFEngine 3 Training: "Automating System Administration using CFEngine", presented by Mark Burgess & Aleksey Tsalolikhin, Palo Alto

February 1-3 -- CFEngine Training presented by Normation, in Brussels, Belgium (prior to FOSDEM)

February 20-22 -- CFEngine 3 Training: “Automating System Administration using CFEngine 3”, presented by Vertical SysAdmin, Los Angeles