Configuration management
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Configuration management (CM) is 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.

Operating System configuration management
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Configuration management can be used to maintain OS configuration files.


Example systems include ``Quattor``, ``CFEngine``, ``Bcfg2``, ``Puppet``, ``Ansible``, ``Vagrant`` and ``Chef``.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Configuration_management

https://blog.serverdensity.com/what-ive-learnt-from-using-ansible-exclusively-for-2-years/

http://thenewstack.io/are-docker-users-migrating-to-ansible-and-away-from-puppet-and-chef/

http://chadfowler.com/blog/2013/06/23/immutable-deployments/

http://theagileadmin.com/what-is-devops/