Configuration management

wikipedia:Configuration management (CM) can be defined a systems engineering process for establishing and maintaining consistency of a product's performance, functional, and physical attributes with its requirements, design, and operational information throughout its life. Different tools can help to manage configuration managemnt, such as Ansible or puppet.

Configuration Management Timeline

• 2012 Ansible (push)
• 2011 Saltstack (push)
• 2009 Chef pull
• 2005 Capistrano
• 2005 Puppet pull

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Related terms

• Software Configuration Management

See also

• Configuration management: Chef, cdist, capistrano, Ansible, puppet, SaltStack
• IaC: Terraform, Chef, cdist, capistrano, Harrow, puppet, Ansible, CFEngine, Cloud Deployment Manager, pulumi, juju, SaltStack, Azure Resource Manager (ARM), Google Deployment Manager, AWS CloudFormation, Pulumi, Heat, Spacelift, Oracle Cloud Resource Manager, KICS, Troposphere, CaC, IaC scanning
• wikipedia:Configuration Management (ITSM)