Configuration Management News and Articles

ControlMonkey Expands Cloud Disaster Recovery to the Network

06.03.2026

Organizations can restore directly from network configuration snapshots.

cloud , Configuration M... , Networking
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Palo Alto Networks Launches Prisma AIRS 2.0

31.10.2025

This major upgrade offers comprehensive AI protection.

Artificial Inte... , Configuration M... , Security
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Centrally manage configuration files

Stow It!

The GNU Stow tool in combination with Ansible can help you manage configuration files.
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Verifying your configuration

Checkup

Automated acceptance testing is a powerful tool for catching problems related to misconfiguration. We'll show you how to implement your own acceptance testing environment with a free tool called goss.
cloud , Configuration M... , Open Source
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Configuring complex environments

At the Controls

YAML is often the language of choice when configuring complex environments. We help you get started with YAML and the YAML parser yq.
Configuration M... , DevOps , Kubernetes
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Infrastructure as Code with Terraform

Geographically Diverse Failover in the Cloud

With the Terraform configuration management tools and the Amazon Route 53 DNS service, you can configure AWS to provide geographically diverse failover between two web servers.
Amazon AWS , AWS , Configuration M... , DevOps , failover , Route 53 , Terraform
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Tuning Ansible

Ansible Configuration Management

A number of widely adopted configuration management tools have risen and fallen in popularity since the DevOps craze first appeared. In this article, we look at a few tweaks that can help you configure Ansible for the best performance.
Ansible , Configuration M... , DevOps
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Kick Start

Kickstack uses Puppet modules to automate the installation of OpenStack and facilitate maintenance.

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Figure 1: The most important tool in IPRoute2 is ip.

IPRoute2

Traditional administration command-line tools such as ifconfig, route, and arp are almost as old as TCP/IP itself. We provide an overview of how the IPRoute2 toolkit now unifies the management of kernel network components.

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Server Configuration Management with puppet

If you really want your evenings to belong to your job, you don’t need to depend on configuration management. But is all your overtime really necessary just to configure a server system? Configuration should just happen by magic these days; after all, we’ve had computers long enough to understand how to get it right.

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