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by dharmab 2116 days ago
> That may include things like endpoint addresses, certificates, secrets, but can also be things like feature flags, authorizations, API tokens. Basically anything that's not compiled in is configuration.

But Kubernetes solves most of this problem in an easier way with Pods, ConfigMaps, Secrets, Services and Endpoints.
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xorcist 2116 days ago
That is your configuration, which you (may) want to manage.

Your whole infrastructure contains much more than that, and managing all that as a coherent whole is what these tools do.

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dharmab 2116 days ago
Yeah, but what's left after you slim down your VMs to a Linux kernel, an SSH daemon and a container runtime? Is a CM system really justified at that point? Why not bake VM images and treat the VMs as immutable?
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