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Configuration Record

A record containing the details of a configuration item (CI). Each configuration record documents the lifecycle of a single CI.

Impact

Configuration records provide the audit trail necessary for compliance and troubleshooting.

Weinto take

In a DevOps world, the Git commit log is the ultimate Configuration Record. git blame tells you who changed it, when, and why (via the commit message). We treat the commit history as a legal record of system evolution.