Introduction: How to Use This Book

“CMDB Systems: Making Change Work in the Age of Cloud and Agile” is a unique combination of recommendations, industry insights, perspectives, and guidelines. Although this book does provide a significant amount of guidance and structure, it also offers up many diverse examples of how various approaches to making configuration management databases (CMDBs) and federated configuration management systems work. The overall goal is to provide you with both a landscape and a guide to help you select the options that fit your level of readiness, your most critical requirements, and your longer-term priorities.

To do this, we have drawn on past consulting experience that includes extensively documented consulting ...

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