July 2017
Intermediate to advanced
414 pages
11h 18m
English
Configuration management also has to be rethought from a microservices and DevOps perspective. Use new methods for configuration management rather than using a traditional statically configured CMDB. Manual maintenance of a CMDB is no longer an option. The statically managed CMDB requires a lot of mundane tasks to maintain entries. At the same time, due to the dynamic nature of the deployment topology, it will be extremely hard to maintain data in a consistent way.
The new styles of CMDBs automatically create CI configurations based on the operational topology. These should be discovery-based to get up-to-date information. The new CMDB should be capable of managing bare metals, virtual machines, and containers.
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