五款服务器配置管理工具

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本文翻译自 Top 5 configuration management tools

为什么使用配置管理工具

Configuration management tools enable changes and deployments to be faster, repeatable, scalable, predictable, and able to maintain the desired state, which brings controlled assets into an expected state.

Some advantages of using configuration management tools include:

• Adherence to coding conventions that make it easier to navigate code
• Idempotency, which means that the end state remains the same, no matter how many times the code is executed
• Distribution design to improve managing large numbers of remote servers

Some configuration management tools use a pull model, in which an agent installed on the servers runs periodically to pull the latest definitions from a central repository and apply them to the