In his Driesnote at Drupalcon Nashville Dries announced among other things that the configuration management needs to improve.

The core issue #2957423 is currently gathering input and a lot of ideas for improvements are coming together.

We will briefly go over the state of CMI 2.0 and then dive deeper into how these problems can be solved today with contrib solutions.

The following use cases will be covered

1. Install from existing configuration (for example: config_installer, core patches)
2. Environment specific configuration (for example: config_split, config_ignore)
3. Configuration management with distributions (for example: config_distro, config_sync)
4. Configuration workflow in teams (git and tasks)
5. Maybe more?