Continuous Delivery with Docker and Jenkins

Traits of good configuration management

What should the modern configuration management solution look like? Let's walk through the most important factors:

• Automation: Each environment should be automatically reproducible, including the operating system, the network configuration, the software installed, and the applications deployed. In such an approach, fixing production issues means nothing more than an automatic rebuild of the environment. What's more, that simplifies server replications and ensures that the staging and production environments are exactly the same.
• Version control: Every change in the configuration should be tracked, so that we know who made it, why, and when. Usually, that means keeping the configuration in the source ...