The wide adoption of configuration management and the increasing size andcomplexity of the associated code, prompt for assessing, maintaining, andimproving the configuration code's quality. This talk introduces configurationsmells, their types with various examples, tools to detect them, andsuggestions to refactor them. The wide adoption of configuration management and the increasing size andcomplexity of the associated code, prompt for assessing, maintaining, andimproving the configuration code's quality. We can leverage traditionalsoftware engineering knowledge and best practices to develop and maintain highquality configuration code. This talk brings the smell metaphor toconfiguration domain. This talk introduces configuration smells, their typeswith various examples, tools to detect them, and suggestions to refactor them.