CFEngine Resources courtesy of Vertical Sysadmin, Inc.

Publications

• "CFEngine Vocabulary Primer" covers the most commonly used parts of the CFEngine language in just 4 pages
• "CFEngine Agent Attributes" covers ALL the promise attributes sysadmins can use to control site configuration and does so in a more compact format than the cfengine.com reference documentation - it is now an appendix in the "Learning CFEngine 3" book.
• "CFEngine Essentials" is a collection of 204 examples used in our popular class, "Automating System Administration with CFEngine"
• "Functions Overview" is an overview summary of the functions available in CFEngine 3.6.5

Videos

• CFEngine 101 webinar series (Feb 2014)
  • IT Automation with CFEngine: Business Values and Basic Concepts (45 min)
  • Getting Started with CFEngine (1 hour)
• "Automating Database System Administration with CFEngine 3" at PgDay Denver, 21 October 2011
• Presentation to Cascadia IT Conference, 12 Mar 2011 (screencast of EC2 system integration demo)

Articles

• "High-Level Configuration Management with CFEngine Sketches", 25 Dec 2012
• "Guide to CFEngine 3 Body of Knowledge", Sep 2011
• "Security monitoring and enforcement with CFEngine 3" in Linux Journal, May 2011 | Source code
• "Configuration Management Summit" in USENIX ;login: magazine, Oct 2010
• "Relative Origin of CFEngine, Puppet and Chef", Sep 2010
• "The State of Open Source System Automation" in Linux-Mag.com, 19 Aug 2010
• "State of the Art of Automating System Administration with Open Source Configuration Management Tools", 9 July 2010
• "Intro to Automating System Administration with CFEngine 3" in Linux-Mag.com, 8 June 2010