From the course: DevOps Foundations (2016)

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- The heart of infrastructure automation and the area of best served with tools is configuration management. There are many approaches to building systems, maintaining and upgrading their configuration, and deploying applications to them. The space could be confusing because many of the tools can be used to perform multiple functions in different ways. And sometimes it's a good idea, and sometimes it's not. So let's start with some definitions of common CM terms and then examine techniques. First, provisioning is the process of making a server ready for operation, including hardware, OS, system services and network connectivity. Deployment is the process of automatically deploying and upgrading applications on a server. And then orchestration is the act of performing coordinated operations across multiple systems. Configuration management itself is an overarching term dealing with change control of system configuration…

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