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Technologies for Large-Scale Configuration Management

This report examines the current state-of-the-art in large-scale system configuration. It introduces the scope and principles of the configuration task, and describes a selected range of technologies that are representative of the approaches in use today. It concludes by summarising the dominant approaches to system configuration offered by these technologies.