It was interesting to see Git take top spot in this category, because although it certainly would work to use standard version control on configuration files, I always assumed it would be used alongside tools like Chef or Puppet. If nothing else, the DevOps movement has taught crusty old system administrators like myself to treat configuration files like code. Version control is incredible, and it seems as though most readers agree.

• Git 39.4%

• Puppet 17.2%

• Ansible 8.9%

• cron jobs 8.8%

• Subversion 7.6%

• Chef 5%

• SaltStack 5.4%

• Other 4.6%*

• CFEngine 3%

*Under "Other", most write-ins went to NixOps.