https://www.infoq.com InfoQ Site Reliability Engineering Articles feed https://www.infoq.com/articles/configuration-control-plane/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Site+Reliability+Engineering-articles <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> Site Reliability Engineering Cloud Architecture Configuration Management Policy as Code Distributed Systems GitOps Platform Engineering Development Architecture & Design DevOps 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=Site+Reliability+Engineering-articles Karthiek Maralla 2026-03-20T09:00:00Z /articles/configuration-control-plane/en