Configuration Management

Introduction> Introduction # Configuration management systems are designed to make controlling large numbers of servers easy for administrators and operations teams. They allow you to control many different systems in an automated way from one central location.

Introduction> Introduction # In a nutshell, server configuration management (also popularly referred to as IT Automation) is a solution for turning your infrastructure administration into a codebase, describing all processes necessary for deploying a server in a set of provisioning scripts that can be versioned and easily reused.

Introduction> Introduction # Ansible is a configuration management tool that is designed to automate controlling servers for administrators and operations teams. With Ansible you can use a single central server to control and configure many different remote systems using SSH and Python as only requirements.

An earlier version of this tutorial was written by Brennen Bearnes. Introduction> Introduction # DigitalOcean’s web-based control panel provides a point-and-click interface for managing Droplets. However, you may prefer a command-line tool if you have many Droplets to manage, need to administer Droplets from the terminal without a graphical desktop available, or have tasks which would benefit from a scriptable interface.

Introduction> Introduction # Configuration management systems are designed to make controlling large numbers of servers easy for administrators and operations teams. They allow you to control many different systems in an automated way from one central location.

An Article from Docker> An Article from Docker # Introduction> Introduction # Continuous integration (CI) refers to the practice where developers integrate code as often as possible and every commit is tested before and after being merged into a shared repository by an automated build.