DevOps — Configuration Management

A systematic approach to managing and altering infrastructure

In the IT industry, adapting and evolving are the norms. To manage these changes efficiently, we turn to a critical ally: configuration management.

Understanding Configuration Management

Imagine this scenario: You’ve meticulously set up your IT infrastructure. However, as time passes, different administrators make alterations. Software versions get updated, tiny adjustments accumulate, and your once-uniform infrastructure starts diverging.

This phenomenon is known as “configuration drift.”

Configuration management steps in to prevent these deviations. It’s a systematic approach to managing and altering infrastructure while maintaining consistency, manageability, and stability.

The key to its effectiveness?

Automation. Configuration management automates change deployment and configuration control, even in complex infrastructures. It streamlines processes and acts as a safety net, catching deviations before they cause problems.

Configuration management and infrastructure as code go hand in hand. Infrastructure as code focuses on creating infrastructure swiftly, while configuration…