Puppet

Puppet is a robust configuration management tool designed to automate the provisioning, configuration, and management of server infrastructure across diverse environments. It allows system administrators to define the desired state of their systems and applications using a declarative,…

Key facts

First appeared: 2005
Category: cloud_infrastructure
Problem solved: Puppet was created to address the challenges of manual, inconsistent, and error-prone server configuration and management. It aimed to provide a scalable, automated, and idempotent solution for defining and enforcing the desired state of IT infrastructure, thereby reducing operational overhead and improving reliability.
Platforms: Unix-like systems, Virtualization platforms (VMware, KVM), macOS, Cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP), Windows, Linux

Related technologies

Google Cloud Platform
Docker
AWS
Azure
Prometheus
Nagios
Linux operating systems
Windows Server
Git
Kubernetes
Jenkins

Notable users

CERN
Many large financial institutions
Telecommunication companies
Government agencies
Salesforce