Install CFEngine on Ubuntu 14.04 HP Cloud

CFEngine is a highly scalable configuration management tool for various works. Here is How To Install CFEngine on Ubuntu 14.04 HP Cloud. CFEngine has a community edition that is free to use. There is dedicated website of CFEngine, where you will get details about the software, if you have heard or used cloud automation tool like Puppet or Chef, CFEngine quite similar but smaller in size. This guide is intended for the advanced users only.

Install CFEngine on Ubuntu 14.04 HP Cloud

First on the SSH screen, we will add the apt-key :

then we will download CFEngine’s public key and add it :

then we will update and upgrade the server :

then we will install the community edition of CFEngine :

Ideally, one server should act as policy hub and the other instances as the clients. However, in this example we are using one instance to run both policy hub and client. To start CFEngine’s policy hub, we will bootstrap it with our server’s public IP address :

We can create a new policy with any name in a memorable location, for example we can ran the policy manually using the cf-agent command in the later steps :

For example, we can add this content to that file :

after saving and exiting from the text editor, if we run this command :

We will get the output :

The above is an example of manual work, if we want to run it on multiple servers, we can add the subnet mask like in above steps and do the steps for automatically installing anything, which is Nginx in our example, you should Edit it rightly :

You can cURL or wget the above file from server from our gist here.

We will create the file here :

“Testing” will make it to get executed :

In order to add the automation, we need to edit this file :

and add the file name in inputs stanza and edit the bundle sequence stanza :

even if change nginx, CFEngine will automatically run it again. It is kind of auto firing.

You will get official documentation here :