Speaking of Config Management…
January 4, 2012
I’ve been reading the Visible Ops Handbook (which is great and you should go buy it right now if you don’t own it), and it’s made me think about a lot of things differently – particularly the role of config management as an enforcement tool, not just a tool of convenience.
Before now, I’ve always kind of considered config management as a way to get things done, but part of the Visible Ops methodology is building fences around fragile resources. One of the authors’ suggestions is to use configuration management in this role, which can kind of augment something like Tripwire.
The reason that I even heard of this book is because Ben Rockwood talked about it in his keynote address at LISA’11. If you have a spare 45 minutes, you should watch that talk. Ben talks about the DevOps movement, and gives a lot of information on the backstory of how we got to where we are, even going so far as to discuss the history of the agile or lean methodologies back into the 19th century. It’s really informative.
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