With the introduction of Drupal 8, the Drupal project introduced a bit of a paradigm shift for managing configuration for Drupal sites, moving toward encapsulating configuration separately from content, and providing a mechanism to manage configuration changes more effectively through Configuration Manager, which is a Drupal Core module.  Configuration Manager provides a mechanism for importing, exporting and synchronizing a site’s configuration components, which is great when you want to maintain a consistent configuration across different development environments.