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Puppet | 2021.7.2Linux/Unix, CentOS 7.8 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Puppet Enterprise Review
What do you like best about the product?
Support on supported modules has been fantastic!
What do you dislike about the product?
Learning to use the Ruby DSL language and its constraints to develop modules took some getting used to. Had to depend on the standard library to do a lot of heavy lifting with the basic objects like arrays.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The need for immutable infrastructure is obvious, and any configuration management solution is helpful in that regard, especially puppet enterprise.
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Puppet does a lot of things right and is continually improving.
What do you like best about the product?
The puppet forge is an amazing resource. Being able to find modules for just about every product is awesome. The ease of mirroring in modules for a quick test is great. The new Tasks feature is a great addition. I was very disappointed when the mcollective interface was removed, I found that quite useful, but it seems that Tasks are going to be a great addition.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish the report page in the console was more detailed. It's difficult to find one single resource in the report. As an example looking at the file resources you may have hundreds of resources and there doesn't seem to be any obvious way to filter that quickly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Being able to show auditors a collection of code that satisfies their needs is great. Shifting from deep troubleshooting sessions to being able to simply deploy new systems to a known good state quickly is starting to make things much simpler for the Ops team.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Be sure to look to the forge first. Don't assume that you are the first person to need a module. You can likely find a module that gives you exactly what you need, or a great base to start from.
A Puppet noobie reivew
What do you like best about the product?
I like puppet has a ability to manage servers with limited configs
What do you dislike about the product?
Learning curve is bad...
There is a limit on file size that you can sync with puppet. We have to use rsync to bypass that.
There is a limit on file size that you can sync with puppet. We have to use rsync to bypass that.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use puppet to do deployment
Puppet Automation
What do you like best about the product?
Automation for baseline software configuration of servers.
What do you dislike about the product?
Higher learning curve to fully utilize potential.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Standardization of baseline software configuration for server deployment.
Manager of development teams
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of use for my development teams and the consistency it provides
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing really, it fits really well into our tool chain.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Easy to learn and provides consistent configuration.
Puppet Enterprise user, for configuration management
What do you like best about the product?
Puppet Enterprise helped me, automating regular tasks in our environment. It has speeded up our regular administrative tasks.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is Ruby oriented, I rather had it Python based.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Automating our Linux installation environment; customers can order there required system servers, with there middelware application server.
Opened the path to a new way of working
What do you like best about the product?
I came from a development background when I went in to operations. I found the way of working in operations to be lacking with regards to version management and staging, which to me are the main things Puppet brings to ops. There are several other tools that do the same, but the community participation for Puppet is excellent and Puppet has a pretty decent presence on the Windows platform. So for me there hasn't been a need to look any further.
What do you dislike about the product?
Puppet is pretty much geared towards legacy infrastructure, which for me is anything that isn't cloud native. For the forseeable future we're stuck with that and a tool like Puppet, to me, is indispensable. But I'd rather be making a greater push towards cloud native.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As said, we're bringing al of our server infrastructure under Puppet. This allows us better insight into our infra, and better control of our infra. Through desired state we neigh eliminate configuration drift, which is a great help in being in control.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
You won't go wrong with Puppet Enterprise, and it offers a solid foundation for your efforts towards Infrastructure as Code.
Good configuration management tool
What do you like best about the product?
Global point of view of your whole infrastructure. Reports.
What do you dislike about the product?
I feel like upgrade path is going too fast. From version 3.8 to 4.x, and from 4.x to 5.x.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Management of a whole online supermarket infrastructure, with their development and production environments.
Describing config policy in terms of desired state, rather than scripting process is very powerful.
What do you like best about the product?
The flexibility and power of PE is great. There are many ways to fit it into an existing infrastructure in ways that work best for different organizations who may have different stages of devops and configuration management objectives in general.
What do you dislike about the product?
It can be difficult for people from the more "ops" side of the organization, with a more traditional background to adopt and sometimes even see all of the advantages. This improves with exposure to the concepts and product.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Consistent deployments of many similar/identical systems that would be hard to confirm/enforce through non-automated methods. Once the target state policy is written and applied, the task of maintaining a large and diverse installation is greatly improved.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Focus on helping staff and users understand and see the value
Puppet Enterprise has been a lifesaver
What do you like best about the product?
Being able to manage thousands of servers across multiple datacenters is a hard task, but getting all ours servers into a managed rebuildable state has been infinitely easier with Puppet.
What do you dislike about the product?
Puppet Enterprise is very resource heavy. Hiera is management is still a mess. Module management in difficult across a large organization, even with things like r10k.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We moved over from CFEngine as our scale increased. Puppet has helped a lot.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This is better than CFengine and Chef
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