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Cfengine’s Orion Cloud Pack to Work on OpenNebula Clouds

A powerful combination for datacenter automation and management
By Ignacio M. Llorente
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January 9, 2011 04:30 PM EST
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If you're a system administrator, you've probably already heard of Cfengine, a cross-platform datacenter automation framework used by more than 5,000 companies on millions of machines worldwide. With Cfengine, the sysadmin describes the desired system state and Cfengine takes care of the rest: it will install packages, maintain configuration files, keep permissions and ensure the right processes are running according to your policy.

A couple of months ago, Cfengine presented a brief overview of the possibilities of a Cfengine-managed OpenNebula setup at the Large Installation System Administration (LISA) conference in San Jose. The Cfengine team presented how Cfengine may be used on both the physical and virtual sides of an OpenNebula-based cloud. More specifically, they presented how Cfengine can be used to install and configure the physical infrastructure in an OpenNebula cloud, followed by the launch and configuration of generic virtual machine images that will run on top of that OpenNebula infrastructure.

In a recent news article, Cfengine has announced that its Orion Cloud Pack, which was originally conceived to make the use of the Amazon EC2 Cloud simple for users of Cfengine, is also working on OpenNebula cloud instances.

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Ignacio M. Llorente, Ph.D in Computer Science (UCM) and Executive MBA (IE Business School), is a Full Professor (Catedratico) in Computer Architecture and the Head of the Distributed Systems Architecture Group at UCM, and Chief Executive Advisor and co-founder of the C12G Labs technology start-up. He held several appointments as independent IT expert for the European Commission and several companies and national governments; and consultant positions at ICASE NASA Langley and Sun Microsystems. Prof. Llorente is one of the pioneers and world's leading authorities on Cloud Computing. He has served on several Groups of Experts on Cloud Computing convened by international organizations, such as the European Commission and the World Economic Forum, and has contributed to several Cloud Computing panels and roadmaps. He is the Director of the OpenNebula Open-Source Project and participates in the main European projects in Cloud Computing. He founded and co-chaired the Open Grid Forum Working Group on Open Cloud Computing Interface. Prof. Llorente has given many keynotes and invited talks in the main international events in cloud computing, and has contributed to several cloud computing panels and roadmaps.