Configuration as a Service
Nico Schottelius, ungleich GmbH
Configuration Management is the de-facto standard to maintain infrastructures of all sizes. Even though some of the configuration management systems can bootstrap themselves, deploying and maintaining a configuration management system requires a permanent investment.
Computational resources have successfully been outsourced in the form of cloud computing and various other services like infrastructure (IaaS) or software (SaaS) are also available as a service. This talk discusses the possibility of moving from running a dedicated configuration management system to using configuration as a service, based on the cdist cloud configuration service, which allows users to configure their hosts without running a configuration management system on their own.
Nico Schottelius is a FOSS hacker and owner and CEO of the ungleich GmbH, a Swiss Linux/Unix infrastructure company. He grew up with Linux and FOSS and is developing the c-star (c*) software series, a set of highly productive and slim software packages.
He received his degree in information management in 2005 and a BsC in computer science in 2012.
Nico Schottelius, ungleich GmbH
Nico Schottelius is a FOSS hacker and owner and CEO of the ungleich GmbH, a Swiss Linux/Unix infrastructure company. He grew up with Linux and FOSS and is developing the c-star (c*) software series, a set of highly productive and slim software packages.
He received his degree in information management in 2005 and a BsC in computer science in 2012.
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author = {Nico Schottelius},
title = {Configuration as a Service},
year = {2014},
address = {Philadelphia, PA},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = jun
}