The App Configuration Blog

AWS Secret Manager: Features, Pricing, Limitations & Alternatives

AWS Secrets Manager is a service to handle sensitive information, often referred to as secrets, used in applications and services across cloud infrastructure.

Configu Editorial Team on December 23, 2024

DevOps on Cloud: Using DevOps Practices in Cloud Environments

DevOps on cloud combines development and operations practices with cloud computing.

Configu Editorial Team on December 23, 2024

DevOps Pipelines: Key Concepts, Stages, and 5 Best Practices

A DevOps pipeline is a series of stages in software development automating processes for continuous integration, delivery, and deployment (CI/CD).

Configu Editorial Team on December 23, 2024

What Causes Configuration Drift and 5 Ways to Prevent It

Configuration drift refers to the gradual and often unnoticed changes in a system's configuration over time.

Configu Editorial Team on December 23, 2024

The 4 GitOps Principles & Making Them Work for You

GitOps is a practice that utilizes Git repositories as the single source of truth for declarative infrastructure and applications

Configu Editorial Team on December 23, 2024

20 DevOps Tools You Should Know in 2025

DevOps combines software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops) to improve the speed and quality of software delivery.

Configu Editorial Team on December 23, 2024

Setting Environment Variables in PowerShell: A Practical Guide

PowerShell environment variables are integral to the configuration of the system and the behavior of scripts within the PowerShell environment.

Configu Editorial Team on November 5, 2024

GitOps with ArgoCD: A Practical Guide

Argo CD is a Kubernetes-native continuous deployment tool. It automates the deployment of applications by monitoring Git repositories.

Configu Editorial Team on November 5, 2024

GCP Secret Manager: The Basics and a Quick Tutorial

Google Cloud Secret Manager offers a secure way to store, access, and manage sensitive information such as API keys, passwords, and certificates

Configu Editorial Team on November 2, 2024

Configuration Management Process: 6 Steps, Roles & Best Practices

Configuration management (CM) is an IT process that manages configuration items (CIs), such as hardware and software components.

Configu Editorial Team on October 14, 2024

Configuration Management Plan: Key Components & Best Practices

A configuration management plan (CMP) organizes and outlines how configuration management will be implemented within a project or organization.

Configu Editorial Team on October 3, 2024

LaunchDarkly Pricing Tiers: Developer, Foundation & Enterprise

LaunchDarkly is a feature management platform for continuous delivery, allowing development teams to deploy code changes quickly and safely.

Configu Editorial Team on October 2, 2024

React Environment Variables: Basics, Tutorial, and Best Practices

React environment variables are key-value pairs used to configure and manage settings in a React app without hardcoding them into the source code.

Configu Editorial Team on October 2, 2024

LaunchDarkly Alternatives: 8 Tools to Consider in 2024

LaunchDarkly has several limitations that are leading some organizations to seek alternatives.

Configu Editorial Team on October 2, 2024

LaunchDarkly: Key Features, Pricing, Limitations & Alternatives

LaunchDarkly is a feature management platform that enables developers to manage feature flags.

Configu Editorial Team on October 1, 2024

Top 8 Configuration Management Tools in DevOps

By using tools like Configu, Ansible, or Chef, teams can automate configuration tasks, ensuring environments are set up in a consistent manner.

Configu Editorial Team on October 1, 2024

Dotenv Rails: Managing Environments Variables in Ruby on Rails

The Dotenv gem is a Ruby library designed to load environment variables from a .env file into the ENV hash, making it easier to manage application configuration.

Configu Editorial Team on October 1, 2024

Working with Python Configuration Files: Tutorial & Best Practices

Config files in Python store app settings and preferences, allowing developers to manage software operation across environments without changing the code.

Configu Editorial Team on October 1, 2024

Jenkins Environment Variables: Practical Guide with Code Examples

Environment variables affect running processes on a computer. In Jenkins, they set configuration settings and command options for various jobs and scripts.

Configu Editorial Team on October 1, 2024

Top 3 Dotenv PHP Libraries and a Quick Tutorial

In PHP, Dotenv libraries serve the same purpose by offering a standardized way to manage environment variables.

Configu Editorial Team on October 1, 2024