Rootconf 2025 Annual Conference CfP

{Describe your talk/session in 2-3 paragraphs}
In a cloud infrastructure, configuration management stands out as one of the most critical and complex challenges especially in scalable environments with hundreds or thousands of distributed servers. Static configuration files and manual updates not only lead to inconsistencies but also introduce operational overhead, human error, and a lack of responsiveness to real-time infrastructure changes. Our project set out to solve this by building a scalable, automation-first configuration management system that ensures consistency, security, and rapid updates across all nodes.

We designed our system using HashiCorp Consul and confd to provide dynamic, centralized control over server configurations in a scalable environment. Consul acts as a centralized key-value store and service discovery engine, while confd continuously monitors it and renders updated configuration templates locally on each server. Whenever a configuration change is made—whether it’s access policies, certificate expiration rules, certificate rotation, or key rotations—confd ensures those updates are immediately and automatically applied across the entire infrastructure. Consul’s RAFT consensus protocol guarantees fault-tolerant and synchronized state propagation. In this talk, I’ll walk through our architecture and explain how our system enables dynamic configuration management in distributed systems.

{Mention 1-2 takeaways from your session}
Understand tools like Consul and confd, and how they can be used to manage and synchronize configurations across distributed systems.

{Which audience segment is your talk/session going to beneficial for?}
This session will be beneficial for DevOps engineers and distributed systems beginners.

{Add your bio - what you do; where you work}
I am Mradul Natani a computer science student, DevOps enthuciast who loves using linux. I’m currently working on a project focused on certificate-based authentication and configuration management in cloud environments.

You can learn more about my work on my website.