https://www.sh-soft.de/categories/configuration-truth/ Recent content in Configuration-Truth on Steffen Hoppe – Infrastructure Reality & Insight Hugo en Wed, 31 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.sh-soft.de/posts/infra-reality/effective-config/ Wed, 31 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.sh-soft.de/posts/infra-reality/effective-config/ Placeholder content. This post will describe effective configuration and why it must be the primary decision basis. https://www.sh-soft.de/posts/infra-reality/config-layering/ Wed, 24 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.sh-soft.de/posts/infra-reality/config-layering/ Placeholder content. This post will explain layering, precedence and inheritance — the true source of config complexity. https://www.sh-soft.de/posts/infra-reality/defaults-hidden-world/ Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.sh-soft.de/posts/infra-reality/defaults-hidden-world/ Most teams underestimate the influence of defaults. They focus on configuration files, parameters, and declarative settings – the parts of a system they can see and control. But these represent only a small fraction of the actual configuration that determines system behaviour. The rest comes from runtime defaults: values embedded in libraries, subsystems, frameworks, OS layers and fallback mechanisms. They change silently, vary by version, and can override explicit configuration without leaving any trace in repos or documentation.