Portal | Level: L1: Foundations | Topics: Configuration Management | Domain: DevOps & Tooling

Configuration Management

Level: L1 | Domain: devops

Configuration management is the practice of systematically handling changes to system configuration so that infrastructure and applications maintain integrity over time. This spans tools like Ansible, Puppet, and Chef for infrastructure state, as well as Kubernetes ConfigMaps, environment variables, and feature flags for application configuration.

Effective configuration management ensures changes are version-controlled, tested, reviewed, and reversible -- reducing the risk of configuration drift and misconfiguration-induced outages.

See Also

• Ansible
• Change Management
• Environment Variables
• Decision Tree: How to Handle This Config Change?

Pages that link here

• Automation
• Decision Tree: How to Handle This Config Change?

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