Chatting with Luke Kanies

1 · Fabio Akita · Nov. 18, 2009, 1:45 p.m.
Configuration Management is a tricky subject. For non-starters, when you’re a developer and you have few boxes to take care of, you can usually get away with just managing them manually. People are probably just used to pop in a CD, double-click the “install” program and click “next”, “next” until the end, then you manually log in to backup (when you remember it), and sometimes you do apply some security updates when you remember about them. But then you have more than a dozen machines, things s...