Continuous configuration automation
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Continuous configuration automation (CCA) is an approach to realize infrastructure as code (IaC) in the DevOps engineering community.
Notable CCA Implementations
The two camps have their popular implementations. For imperative IaC, many uses Ansible as an example. For declarative IaC,Terraform is often mentioned.
Notable CCA tools include:
| Tool | Released by | Initial release | Method | Approach | Written in |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ansible | RedHat | 2012 | Push | Declarative and imperative | Python |
| CFEngine | CFEngine | 1993 | Pull | Declarative | C[1] |
| Chef | Chef | 2009 | Pull | Imperative | Ruby |
| Otter | Inedo | - | Push | Declarative and imperative | - |
| Pulumi | Pulumi | 2017 | Push | Declarative and imperative | TypeScript, Python, Go, C |
| Puppet | Puppet | 2005 | Pull | Declarative | C++, Clojure since 4.0, Ruby |
| SaltStack | SaltStack | 2011 | Push and Pull | Declarative and imperative | Python |
| Terraform | HashiCorp | 2014 | Push | Declarative | Go |