CompTIA Cloud Essentials+ (CLO-002)Management and Technical OperationsMedium
A cloud management platform is being evaluated for a large enterprise. One key requirement is the ability to maintain consistent configurations across hundreds of virtual machines and containers, ensuring that all adhere to a baseline setup and automatically remediate any deviations. Which cloud management concept directly supports this requirement?
- AConfiguration management
- BDynamic scaling
- CData lake
- DServerless computing
Show answer & explanationAnswer & explanation
Correct answer: A. Configuration management
Configuration management ensures that all resources adhere to a desired state, automatically detecting and remediating deviations to maintain consistency across a large number of VMs and containers.
Why the other options are wrong
- B. Dynamic scaling adjusts resource capacity based on demand, not for maintaining consistent configurations.
- C. A data lake is a storage repository for large amounts of raw data, unrelated to configuration consistency.
- D. Serverless computing is an execution model where the cloud provider manages the infrastructure, not a concept for maintaining consistent configurations across traditional VMs/containers.
Configuration Management
A process for maintaining consistency of a product's performance, functional, and physical attributes with its requirements, design, and operational information throughout its life. In cloud, it ensures consistent resource configurations.
- Ensures resources adhere to a desired state.
- Detects and remediates configuration drift.
- Often uses tools like Ansible, Puppet, Chef, SaltStack.
Memory trick: Config management keeps everything in line.