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Implementing DevOps with Ansible 2
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Implementing DevOps with Ansible 2

by Jonathan McAllister
July 2017
Intermediate to advanced
266 pages
6h 36m
English
Packt Publishing
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Origins of Configuration Management

Configuration Management can be traced back in origins to the early 1950s, an era of punch cards and large mainframe computing apparatuses. Punch cards at the time often needed to be organized and delivered to the mainframe, and as a result of this specific ordering, a requirement was mandated by larger organizations to manage the configuration of such punch cards. After the golden days of punch cards, additional management requirements came to light with regard to maintaining the state of a given software system or IT apparatus. Entities capable of managing such a process at the time were limited to the government's CDC Update and IBM's IBM IEBUPDATE, respectively.

It wasn't until the early to mid 1990s ...

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ISBN: 9781787120532