# Config Sprawl

> The degree to which externalizing configuration across many sources scatters it and makes it hard to track.

Record: `lexicon:config-sprawl`
Kind: quality-attribute
Layer: [Resource Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/resource-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-config-sprawl

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Config Schema](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/config-schema.md) and before [Environment-Specific Deployment](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/environment-specific-deployment.md).

## Category

- [Portability / Infrastructure / Deployment](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/portability-infrastructure-deployment.md)

## In tension with

- [Configuration Externalization](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/configuration-externalization.md)
- [Configuration Externalization / Config Sprawl](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/config-sprawl-configuration-externalization.md)

## Linked from

- [Portability / Infrastructure / Deployment](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-portability-infrastructure-deployment.md)
- [The resolutions](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-resolutions.md)