There is an awful lot of people doing hobby projects with the ESP8266. I did not want to come up with the 47th incarnation of something, so the question came up, what an interesting project could look like. In the end I decided to develop a solution for managing a multitude of ESP8266-based devices. From a high-level perspective this will include the following components:

• CMDB: holds information about all devices
• Bootstrapper: prepares the raw module for all further work
• Security Manager
• Lifecycle Manager: Reference processes “from cradle to grave”

In my professional life I have been doing a lot of work on SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle) and configuration management, so the above project choice seemed a natural fit. It also happens that I am deeply interested in both topics and strongly think that poor application of them is often responsible for IT project failures.