Since the release of Drupal 8 in November 2015, developers and site maintainers have been coming to terms with the configuration management that is now a big part of how we support Drupal 8 sites. I took some time to learn the strategies different developers have adopted to make configuration management work for them. In reviewing the material found online, I noticed a definite progression in these strategies from the release of Drupal 8 to the time of writing this nearly two years later.