Welcome to open source Puppet documentation

Open source Puppet provides tools to automate managing your infrastructure. It has a vibrant community of users and contributors. You can get involved by fixing bugs, influencing new feature direction, publishing your modules, and engaging with the community to share knowledge and expertise.

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Get up-to-speed with the latest open source Puppet version.

Release notes »

Learn how Puppet’s declarative language helps you manage all of the resources in your infrastructure.

Puppet language and code »

Create high-quality modules with Puppet Development Kit (PDK), which provides integrated testing tools and a command line interface to help you develop, validate, and test modules.

Puppet Development Kit docs »

The roles-and-profiles approach to designing system configurations with Puppet code is not just for Puppet Enterprise users (even though that’s where the docs are). Keep complexity under control and make your Puppet code more reusable, reconfigurable, and refactorable by setting up roles and profiles.

Roles and profiles »

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Learn Puppet with instructor-led courses or on your own. Puppet training gives you the skills you need to discover, manage, and deliver your applications and the infrastructure they run on.

Training »

Open source Puppet has a supportive, active community of thousands of people who are making Puppet better — and making IT a better place to work. Get help and get involved with the Puppet community.

Community »

Find out more about Bolt, the open source orchestration tool that runs commands, scripts, tasks, and plans on your infrastructure.

Bolt »

Puppet Enterprise offers robust solutions to automate anything and manage configuration and deployment changes across your infrastructure at scale.

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