DevOps: Flexible configuration management? Not so fast! | Javalobby

DevOps: Flexible configuration management? Not so fast! | Javalobby

• “Let us create our own workflows!”
• “We should be able to configure our own servers.”
• “It should be able to deploy from Nexus, Artifactory, S3, or whatever we choose.”
• “We can finally use the app versioning scheme my team likes.”
• “My team should get to do parallel installs if we want”
• “We should have open APIs so anybody can execute their own deployment solution.”
• “Each team should be able to configure the middleware for their application’s needs.”

• So there is a general consensus that if you can make this deployment tool as flexible as possible, you’ll be able to build the best deployment automation system the world has ever seen.
• Sounds great, except that it’s totally wrong.