A couple of months ago our friends at 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.