Keith Edmunds is MD of Tiger Computing Ltd, which provides support for businesses using Linux.
The CMS acronym, confusingly, can refer to either Content Management Systems, such as WordPress, or Configuration Management Systems such as Puppet, Ansible or Chef. For this issue’s column I’m using CMS to refer to the latter. There are a lot of them – indeed, Wikipedia lists 24 Open Source CMSs. If you have more than one Linux system then you should use a CMS, and they have a place even if you only have one Linux system.
There are many reasons to use a CMS, but here are just three to get you going.
First, it provides a change control mechanism and, when coupled with an SCM (Software Configuration Management), an audit log.
Second, it…
