https://www.infoq.com InfoQ Configuration Management feed https://www.infoq.com/articles/configuration-control-plane/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Configuration+Management <img src="https://res.infoq.com/articles/configuration-control-plane/en/headerimage/configuration-as-a-control-plane-designing-for-safety-and-reliability-at-scale-header-1773657574566.jpg"/><p>Configuration has evolved from static deployment files into a live control plane that directly shapes system behavior. The evolution of configuration management highlights why misconfigurations can trigger large outages and how hyperscalers deploy changes safely using staged rollouts, validation, blast radius limits, and automated rollback at scale.</p> <i>By Karthiek Maralla</i> Configuration Management Policy as Code GitOps Site Reliability Engineering Platform Engineering Distributed Systems Cloud Architecture Development DevOps Architecture & Design article Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://www.infoq.com/articles/configuration-control-plane/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Configuration+Management Karthiek Maralla 2026-03-20T09:00:00Z /articles/configuration-control-plane/en