Configuration Management deals with establishing a baseline, high-level standard of quality for all the resources in your environment. In our case, we want to maintain the highest level of quality and serviceability of our virtual machines. Any deviation from this standard of quality should be quickly mitigated and resolved to return back to our baseline standard of quality. As we’ll see, Azure has several tools available including 3rd-party tools to implement this type of Configuration Management. It’s no secret that having a healthy environment saves money. Configuration Management helps to not only reduce cost but also make it easier to predict the cost of maintaining your IT environment.