Configuration Management ROI

Configuration Management benefits and return on investment.

Mass production and standard tooling have been around in manufacturing industries for a hundred years. Computing and web companies still typically install and maintain infrastructure manually like its 1901.

Fear not, the last ten years have seen a whole world of exciting developments that took place and given birth to a radical new approach to the process of designing, building and maintaining IT systems that make web operations possible.

This so called mentality is called Infrastructure as Code, and it is enabling Devops and Continuous Delivery everywhere.

Learn how codifying your infrastructure can save your business money and even earn more than you invested.

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1. Configuration Management Return on Investment
2. Evgeny @kesor6 www.devops.co.il
3. what is cfg.mgmt.?
5. 1950 1998
6. build everything the same every time
8. avoid problems caused by system inconsistencies
10. free yourself to do more important work
12. 1. identify 2. store 3. change 4. report
14. servers (vms) / storage operating system application servers application code + dependencies application configuration network monitoring
17. belongs to app code or to cmdb? ◦ packages & versions ◦ mail servers ◦ data centers ◦ database users & passwords ◦ connection strings ◦ integration urls ◦ deployments ◦ batch jobs
18. we don’t need cm ...
19. not that big a project
20. devs “fix” production
21. customer asked us
22. unnecessary bureaucracy
23. limits our flexibility
24. stifles creativity
25. ◦ time to deploy features ◦ number of features / bugs solved ◦ time to finish task vs. estimate how will you measure me?
29. regressions
30. duplicate effort
31. disaster recovery
33. change fast-er