Chef Habitat is a one-year-old application configuration management project, designed to extend in a different direction from Chef's main focus by separating the application from infrastructure ...

When systems engineers build or repair computer software or hardware, they need consistent processes in place to keep it running smoothly. Configuration management is the name for this set of ...

Back in the dim, dark past, much of the IT team's focus was to manage changes to IT resources. Some of this was around software (operating system and drivers), but mainly it was at the server level, ...

Quick Summary Struggling to maintain consistency and control across dynamic infrastructure environments? Discover the 10 best configuration management tools for DevOps teams in 2026 that help automate ...

There has been a lot of conversation going on around the configuration of applications, and how you manage it. Tom Sulston, a colleague of mine at ThoughtWorks, and myself started the ESCAPE project ...

Configuration simply refers to the arrangement of the parts or elements of something, and management refers to the act or practice of managing. By combining both words, it could be stated that ...

Version control woes are still a real issue. Of course, control system integrators try to manage all the content associated with your projects, but sooner or later things can get out of hand and they ...