cf-primer

A primer for CFEngine, a mini zero-to-hero introduction to help get you productive.

This is a slide show using Slidy2.

You will need pandoc version 1.9.1.1 or later (but possibly earlier) to convert slides.md into slides.html. (Debian stable is unfortunately 1.5.1.1 and does not have support for some of the options I use).

You will also need graphviz.

Getting Started.

1. Once you have pandoc installed simply run make to build slides.html.
2. Open slides.html in any modern web browser, preferably in full screen.

Installing pandoc

Note: at current I have only tested installing on Mac OS X using Homebrew. Let me know how it goes!

On Mac OS X using Homebrew

Using Homebrew is workable, although not as simple or straightforward as I would like.

brew install haskell-platform
cabal update
cabal install cabal-install
cabal install pandoc

pandoc will be installed to ~/.cabal/bin/pandoc. You will need to ensure that ~/.cabal/bin/pandoc is in your path.

On Debian based distributions

If pandoc 1.9.1.1 or later is available:

sudo apt-get install pandoc

else:

sudo apt-get install haskell-platform
sudo cabal install pandoc

On RPM based distributions

Use the justhub Haskell distribution then install pandoc via cabal.

sudo cabal install pandoc

On any other Unix like system

Try the community supported Haskell platform packages. Then, you guessed it, install pandoc via cabal.

sudo cabal install pandoc