How Static Config Management Kills Developer Productivity

2 years ago thenewstack.io

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Did you know that a static config management setup is the main reason why things go wrong for developers? And that taking a static approach to config management doesn’t work at scale?

There are two “competing” methodologies to configuration management: static configuration management and dynamic configuration management.

The more workloads, the more files, which renders static configuration management unable to scale beyond 50 services without heavily damaging productivity.

As we highlighted, static setups have to maintain a large number of individual configuration files for each workload, in each environment.

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