Adding a configuration management system
Configuration management systems are probably the most well-known components of a classic DevOps driven organization. Present in most companies including in the enterprise market, configuration management systems are quickly replacing home grown Shell, Python, and Perl scripts. There are many reasons why configuration management systems should be part of your environment. They offer domain-specific languages, which improves the readability of the code, and are tailored to the specific needs that organizations have when trying to configure systems. This means a lot of useful built-in features, and finally, the most common configuration management tools, have a big and active user community, which often means that you will be able to find existing code for the system you are trying to automatize.
Some of the most popular configuration management tools include Puppet, Chef, SaltStack, and Ansible. While all those options are fairly good, this book will...
