For complex sofware installations

For complex installations, of course, there may be more components. For example, from the "Application Configuration" one can often distinguish "Secrets", "Endpoints" and "Functional Configuration" (related to the application logic). Or a "Runtime" could consist of both "Virtual Servers" and "Orchestrator".

For each of these components, you also need to work out the corresponding change process. As we said above, depending on which way we chose to go, it can be either spreading instructions or automation scripts. Or in general, we will have separate services - they will manage these components and take on all the complexity. For example, if you keep secrets in Vault, the whole process of making changes to secrets will consist of at least two steps: