Introduction

Welcome to the CentOS Configuration Management SIG project documentation. This page will introduce some of its key concepts.

What is the CentOS Project?

The CentOS Project is a community-driven free software effort focused on delivering a robust open source ecosystem.

Source: CentOS.org

For years, the CentOS project was mainly busy rebuilding the Red Hat Entreprise Linux distribution. However, the focus has now changed a bit. While the CentOS distribution is still at the heart of the project, it is now a complete platform with multiple subproject.

What is a SIG?

Special Interest Groups (SIG) are smaller groups within the CentOS community that focus on a small set of issues, in order to either create awareness or to focus on development along a specific topic.

Source: CentOS wiki

SIG are the way the CentOS community organises itself; every SIG is made out of several people, and has its own goals. There are Technical and Non-Technical SIG.

What is Config Management?

When we speak about Config Management, we mean actually a bit more. We mean: configuration management, system lifecycle management and orchestration tools. It it the tools that allows you to efficiently deploy and manage your machines, nodes, vm, containers..

What is the Config Management SIG?

A group of people who work together to bring those tools to the CentOS Users.