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What is configuration management?

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What is configuration management?

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So, before you can learn about Ansible, you should learn about configuration management and what exactly it is. To tell a computer what it needs to be doing, it uses configuration. And on Linux, configuration is stored in many files and normally on Linux these are in a readable text format. On Windows, configuration is mainly stored in the registry, which is a little bit harder to access. And hardware appliances also make use of configuration. And they store them in different ways. Typically they are written on ROM, but it really depends on what exactly the hardware appliance is doing. Now in the old days of computing, limited numbers of devices were used, so configuration could be managed directly by experts who were touching the command line on the different managed nodes. Nowadays as environments are growing bigger and bigger, that's not really doable anymore. So that typically applies for cloud and data centers, where managing configurations for individual servers really is not…

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