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Utilize configuration management systems

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Utilize configuration management systems

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- [Instructor] We won't build a configuration management system in this course, as we have courses in the course library that cover these. However, I will outline how they work and how to utilize Git. There are multiple different configuration management systems such as Puppet, Chef, Salt from SaltStack, and Ansible. There are others, both commercial and open source, but we will focus on these four. I will outline the general overview of how these systems work and how you can use Git to manage them. Keep in mind that the conversation is much longer than I'm going to make it, and I'm going to try to focus on the general concept of configuration management systems and similarities between these. This is not a comparison of these technologies. With any of these configuration management systems, there's a control host and a client receiving commands and/or configuration information. The client often can have a piece of…

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