ConfValley
Peng Huang, William J. Bolosky, Abhishek Alfred Singh, Yuanyuan Zhou · 2015
Studies and many incidents in the headlines suggest misconfigurations remain a major cause of unavailability in large systems despite the large amount of work put into detecting, diagnosing and repairing them. In part, this is because many of the solutions are either post-mortem or too expensive to use in production cloud-scale systems. Configuration validation is the process of explicitly defining specifications and proactively checking configurations against those specifications to prevent misconfigurations from entering production.