To implement an automated configuration management solution, one needs to start by building a configuration management toolset that discovers, reports, and enables actions on operating systems and applications. This toolset automates environment deployment tasks. The configuration management automation ensures the repeatability and consistency of our future environment builds. A configuration management automation toolset is implemented with the steps outlined in the following points:
Determine a list of OSes (firewalls, hostnames, and so on) and application configuration items to manage.
Install and configure a configuration management tool, such as Puppet, Chef, Salt, or Ansible, for overall configuration management.
Install and configure the supporting toolset with Git, Jenkins, and Maven.
Generate as-is configuration management reports.
Build configuration management deployment scripts.
Establish a workflow for automated deployments...