How Drupal 8 takes care of Configuration Management
Drupal 8 totally changes the way configuration is managed on a site. The configuration can be stored in files instead of the database, so it is not a problem to put it under version control.
All default configuration defined and used by a module must be able to be stored in special configuration files using the YAML specification and the .yml file extension. YAML is short for YAML Ain't Markup Language; according to its creators, YAML is a human-friendly data serialization standard for all programming languages. In short, it's easier to read and write. Each module provides its own default configuration files in a special folder named config, which makes it easy to see which configuration a module ...
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