Configuration management is nothing new for Michael Stahnke. In this talk, he’ll be looking at Nix, the functional package manager (and a bit of NixOS) from a foundational point of view and contrasting it from the theory and foundations coming from Puppet (with a few other tool comparisons thrown in).
While configuration management’s role in delivering applications has changed over the years, the time is ripe to take what we’ve learned in the last 15 years - through containers, cloud native architectures and massively distributed systems - and develop a continually evolving approach.
This will have some humor, some information, and some ideas about where we could head in the configuration management space given our cumulative knowledge.