Configuration Management with Puppet

Continuous Configuration Automation to Enforce Desired State at Scale

Building and maintaining golden images; running commands and scripts by hand to configure machines – manual configuration management leads to rework, image sprawl, a lack of control over critical infrastructure.

You need a reliable way to automate infrastructure configuration and deployment while scaling for future growth. Continuous configuration automation tools from Puppet are the only solution built with enterprise scalability in mind.

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Configuration Management Made Easy with Puppet

  • Define and enforce configurations across operating systems, middleware, and applications in a programmatic way
  • Define, test, and deploy changes with infrastructure as code using task-oriented or model-driven workflows
  • Assess configurations, lay down baselines, and automate standards for continuous enforcement of desired state
  • Manage the state of your infrastructure with a dashboard view of inventory across the organization and track exceptions in a repeatable way

Control Drift with Continuous Configuration Automation Tools from Puppet

  • Manage changes at scale with control and auditability; track and report on corrective and intentional changes from a centralized interface
  • Reduce operational risk with a consistent and predictable environment that meets security and compliance requirements
  • Easily manage drift between the desired and actual configuration state with continuous configuration automation
  • Never be caught off-guard with Puppet's agent-based drift alerting 
  • Safely scale automation across teams with greater insight into proposed code changes while avoiding conflict and collisions
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Reduce Risk and Maintain Compliance with Automation

  • Stay compliant with automated patching workflows and eliminate multiple tools, and manual, error prone processes
  • Build security, compliance, and operational policies right into your infrastructure code with policy-as-code
  • Enforce your system’s desired state, automatically assess compliance with specific guidelines such as CIS and NIS

Automate More Infrastructure, Tasks + Workflows with Puppet Modules

  • Take advantage of over 6,000 modules built by Puppet experts and the Puppet community
  • Automate the infrastructure management lifecycle, from deployment to recycling and decommissioning resources
  • Supercharge and simplify automation processes with step-by-step guides and tutorials

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Everyone wants to have stability while still being fast; that’s one of the main objectives we have for configuration management. Puppet helps us to get to that point, so we can quickly build and configure systems that are standardized — and when you become standardized, you become more stable.— Tom Sabin, IT Manager for Cloud & Automation, Staples

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Extensive Operating System Support

Puppet Enterprise has extensive support on over 49 operating systems to help power and automate your diverse set of workflows and global infrastructure.

  • AIX 7.1, 7.2
  • Amazon Linux v1, v2
  • CentOS 6, 7, 8
  • Debian 8, 9, 10
  • Fedora 30, 31, 32
  • OSX 10.14, 10.15
  • RedHat 7, 7 FIPS, 8
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11, 12, 15
  • Oracle Solaris 10, 11, 11.4
  • Ubuntu 14.04, 16.04, 20.04
  • Windows 10, 2008, 2012, 2012 FIPS, 2016, 2019