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A Brief DevOps History: The Roots of Infrastructure as Code
DevOps is full of buzzwords, jargon and abbreviations. DevOps itself has only been around for a little more than a decade, so some of these concepts are relatively new.
It has its roots in configuration management, and most configuration management tools use some sort of Infrastructure-as-Code approach.
If you dig in and go all the way back to the dawn of modern computing, configuration management tools have been around since the 1970s.
One of the oldest open source examples of the modern definition of configuration management is CFEngine, initially released in 1993.
It has its roots in configuration management, and most configuration management tools use some sort of Infrastructure-as-Code approach.
If you dig in and go all the way back to the dawn of modern computing, configuration management tools have been around since the 1970s.
One of the oldest open source examples of the modern definition of configuration management is CFEngine, initially released in 1993.
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