In this chapter, we talked about how DevOps and the DevOps movement began; we learned about the various components of DevOps (CAMS); we discussed the roles agile, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and microservices have played within DevOps; and we discussed some of the other various architectural techniques that DevOps requires.
In the next chapter, we will delve into configuration management, which also plays a pivotal role in DevOps. By understanding the techniques of configuration management, we will begin to understand the concepts of Infrastructure as Code (which is something Ansible does very well). We will delve into what it means to version your configuration states, how to go about developing code that maintains the infrastructure state, and what the ins and outs are for creating a successful configuration management (CM) solution.
