CM is the process of using automation to standardize resource configurations across your entire infrastructure and applications. CM tools such as Chef, Puppet, and Ansible can help you manage IaC and automate most system administration tasks, including provisioning, configuring, and managing IT resources. By automating and standardizing resource configurations across the development, build, test, and deployment phases, you can ensure consistency and eliminate failures caused by misconfiguration.
CM can also increase the productivity of your operations by allowing you to automatically deploy the same configuration to hundreds of nodes at the push of a button. CM can also be leveraged to deploy changes to configurations.
Although you can use registry settings or databases to store system configuration settings, a configuration management application allows you to maintain version control as well, in addition to storage. CM is also a way to track and audit configuration...