Handling server configurations

Intro

During my work as a programmer I often encountered that configuration and infrastructure files only lived on the servers they belog to. If they had a copy in git, the states would always divert over time. One reason for this diverting is that you actively have to put the changed files in git, after you finished your work. It’s simply a thing you can forget.

What do I mean by “infrastructure files”? For me infrastructure files are files, that you need to configure the server itself, e.g. nginx-config, docker-compose.yml, … .