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To be "that guy" this is not at all a new area. CFengine is almost 20 years old and certainly wasn't the first bit of software to try and solve the problem. The

• atsaloli 15y ago
  Well, shaggy, from my talking to sysadmins at large, most are not using any kind of automated configuration management at all. They are using ssh for loops, and that's their automation. Pushing changes. So when I say configuration management is a new field, I mean the ideas are just starting to go from niche to wider adoption. This year was the first year at LISA (Unix sys admin conference) where most people had some kind of configuration management solution -- and LISA is to a large extent early adopters. So now the early adopters have adopted the technology -- it will take years for the rest of the field to catch up. Just out of curiosity, I'm not aware of any configuration management software preceeding CFEngine - kindly share? I agree there is a lot of room for improvement, and I see improvement happening, in all the modern tools, this is great.