Editing Configuration management (section)

===Operating system configuration management===
Configuration management can be used to maintain [[Operating system|OS]] configuration files.<ref>{{cite web|author=C. Lueninghoener|title=Getting Started with Configuration Management. ;login: issue: April 2011, Volume 36, Number 2|url=https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/articles/105457-Lueninghoener.pdf|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/articles/105457-Lueninghoener.pdf|archive-date=2022-10-09|url-status=live|access-date=2012-11-23}}</ref> Many of these systems utilize [[Infrastructure as Code]] to define and maintain configuration.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Loschwitz|first=Martin|date=14 November 2014|title=Choosing between the leading open source configuration managers|url=http://www.admin-magazine.com/Archive/2014/23/Choosing-between-the-leading-open-source-configuration-managers|magazine=Admin Network & Security|location=Lawrence, Kansas|publisher=Linux New Media USA LLC}}</ref>

The [[Promise theory]] of configuration maintenance was developed by [[Mark Burgess (computer scientist)|Mark Burgess]],<ref>M. Burgess, Cfengine: a site configuration engine, USENIX Computing systems, Vol8, No. 3 1995 [https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/compsystems/1995/sum_burgess.pdf]</ref><ref>M. Burgess, On the theory of system administration, Science of Computer Programming 49, 2003. p1-46 [http://research.iu.hio.no/papers/sysadmtheory3.pdf pdf] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724180113/http://research.iu.hio.no/papers/sysadmtheory3.pdf|date=24 July 2011}}</ref><ref>M. Burgess, Configurable immunity for evolving human-computer systems, Science of Computer Programming 51 2004, p197-213 [http://research.iu.hio.no/papers/immunity.pdf pdf] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120303062114/http://research.iu.hio.no/papers/immunity.pdf|date=3 March 2012}}</ref> with a practical implementation on present day computer systems in the software CFEngine able to perform real time repair as well as preventive maintenance.