Bcfg2 was developed at Argonne National Laboratory to provide system
administrators with a tool to describe their systems and make
consistent, verifiable changes. I’ll be giving a brief introduction to
Bcfg2 and how it can be used to to model and automate system
configuration in your environment.
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Ian Dotson has been a Unix system administrator for nine years. He is
currently working for the University of Washington Libraries where
he’s been using Bcfg2 to manage a growing number of Linux systems.
Prior to working at UW, he was a system administrator at RealNetworks.

Discussing how to use Puppet as well as how configuration management can
improve change management.

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Garrett Honeycutt is currently a Senior Systems Engineer with Speakeasy.
His interests include configuration management, security, scalability,
and high availability. In the recent past he has built mobile media
distribution platforms and helped design and implement a national
carrier grade VoIP platform. He is currently developing a set of
standards for cataloguing databases and searching the deep web.