Evolution of Application Management

Approaches in the past

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…we copied files into servers. It wasn’t that bad, mostly because our needs were relatively simple. We had a couple of servers, we were releasing once a year (or even less frequently), and we didn’t worry that much about many of the things we consider bare minimum necessities today. If we were advanced enough, we might create a ZIP file with all the files we needed, use SSH to copy them to servers, and decompress them. But that was about it. That’s what we did, and that worked just fine. But that was many years ago.