Configuration Management and Application Deployment

Configuration Management is rarely being attributed as a contributing factor to Application Deployment issues. The truth is that in a world of Continuous Deployment, when the environment changes all the time, having a correct design of a Configuration Management system becomes critical to the availability and stability of a product. It becomes increasingly important to properly separate configuration concerns, manage predictable and versioned state of config in the environment and in some cases provide an ability to make config changes live.

We will cover different types of application configuration, their lifecycle and management, will learn about approaches on how to separate the configuration API from consumption and provisioning, support real-time config changes, the benefits that can be achieved from a well defined API providing ease of development, nice IDE support, refactoring, type handling and true data objects, flexibility of being able to retrieve configuration from different sources and in different formats and how to effectively integrate Configuration Management into a Continuous Deployment Pipeline.

About Alex Antonov

Alex has joined Orbitz in 2004 and is responsible for providing technical leadership and guidance in the development of foundational technologies, core libraries and APIs for the enterprise-wide use, as well as establishing and maintaining common design principles and standards used within the company and integration of new software development practices within the development community.

Previously Alex was a Lead Engineer on the same team responsible for web application frameworks and developing common practices and additional functionality on top of Spring MVC & Webflow.

Alex is a graduate of Loyola University of Chicago, with a B.S. in Computer Science and M.S. in Computer Science specializing in Software Architecture. He currently resides in Evanston, IL and when not coding, Alex enjoys playing tennis, hiking, skiing, and traveling.

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