Configuration -

In software engineering and product management, feature configuration

Configuration has a wide range of applications across various industries, including: configuration

Sysadmins began writing Bash or Perl scripts to automate configuration. Tools like rsync and scp pushed config files to dozens of servers. While better than manual work, "configuration drift" became a nightmare. If you updated Server A but forgot Server B, you had a "snowflake server"—unique, fragile, and unrepeatable. In software engineering and product management

6.3 Immutable Configuration