Clearly, from these examples, another approach is required for the management of configuration at an enterprise scale. There is nothing wrong with the lineinfile approach we discussed previously when it comes to making small numbers of changes in a well-controlled environment, yet let us consider a more robust approach to configuration management, better suited to a large organization.
We will start by considering scalable methods for simple static configuration changes (that is, those that are the same across all servers) in the next section.
