Configuration Management – Just Do It!
March 29, 2017
Configuration Management, as applied in DevOps, is the practice of using tools to manage the configuration of our technical architecture. Put simply, we document the desired state of one or more servers in a machine-readable form, and then use a configuration management tool (e.g. Chef, Puppet, Salt, or Ansible) to setup the real items to match the configuration.
Why? As with many things, you might think “I barely have time to setup this server manually, never mind write a script for it
