Simplify Your IaC Workflows & Reduce Errors

Terraform is the standard for managing cloud infrastructure with IaC. CM must be combined with IaC, and both require easy secret and parameter injection for optimal results.

Tech experts at a consortium workshop analyzed postmortems to understand how engineers deal with configuration complexity and how to assist them. These cases revealed recurring themes that lead to resilient performance and offer opportunities for progress.

Configuration drift is a growing problem for DevOps teams. David Woods' research into improving systems in complex settings can teach us how to manage configuration complexity better. 

Applying Woods' Theorem to configuration management best practices suggests that as the complexity of a system increases, it becomes difficult for any single agent to have an accurate model of that system. Therefore, effective configuration management requires collaboration and coordination among multiple agents, with each one contributing their own perspective and knowledge to build a more accurate model of the system.