A computing infrastructure management system includes a processing system and a memory for storing a configuration management client, which is executed by the processing system to receive a manifest file associated with a computing infrastructure comprising a plurality of computing devices each having one or more resources. Using the received manifest file, the client translates the manifest file by arranging one or more directives of the manifest file according to one or more dependencies of each resource relative to the resources of the other computing devices, and provisions the resources of each computing device using the translated manifest file.