The configuration API is one of the major areas of progress made in Drupal 8. It addresses many challenges of managing a site across environments for Drupal 7 and before. It's not perfect. After all, it's just version 1 and there is work going on in CMI 2 to fix the problems in the current version. That is not the subject of this blog post, however. In this post, I want to talk about one of the lesser understood features of configuration management: overriding.