Puppet: No strings to hold me down, to make me fret, or make me frown
November 06, 2017
Puppet: No strings to hold me down, to make me fret, or make me frown
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Puppet Data Center Automation
Puppet Data Center Automation is being used throughout our organization to quickly and reliably deploy and maintain various systems. We currently pull our manifests from Git via Puppet to stand-up brand new (virtual) servers and configurations without worrying about configuration drift on each independent snowflake. Using Puppet allows us to automate and streamline multiple aspects of our day-to-day operations and works well within our release process to provide us with solid infrastructure-as-code solution.
Pros
- Provides a reliable mechanism for deploying infrastructure-as-code, especially when integrated with source control (such as Git).
- Manages system configuration drift to provide greater stability and system up-time; the same configuration-as-code can be pushed out over and over.
- A strong asset when moving teams towards DevOps by providing development a way to take control of their own assets.
Cons
- A bit of a steep learning curve but something that can be easily understood once a few basics are grasped and use of Puppet is put into practice.
- Does not fit well with existing infrastructure but that is not necessarily a failing with Puppet but can require a radical shift in thinking and procedures to reliably implement.
- Allows our infrastructure teams to focus on other tasks besides system maintenance and constant configuration drift.
- Gives our development teams a way of reliably knowing that each development environment is similar.
- Chef and Ansible
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