Puppet Enterprise Erfahrungen

Best Part of this software is it involved in building the end-to-end continuous delivery and automation of entire software delivery lifecycle, from the time developers commit application code to the deployment of those apps wherever they run complete information is seen and recorded for future enhancements.Automatically trigger application builds and continuous integration workflows on any code commit or pull request. Its Excellent dashboard system shows the complete life cycle of the software delivery from the time applications move from development to production

There is nothing least about this to say this has brought enormous changes in the sdlc. But need a change in the UI part. Customization is being looking for various version need a small improvements in the customer support regarding the product relaease

Our use-case is NetApp storage cluster configuration management and conformance reporting. There was some puppet modules out on GitHub that are good for NetApp storage cluster management.

Puppet requires custom Ruby code to operate. Also it has very few NetApp-specific modules to make the transition successful. A lot of custom Ruby coding is require. Ansible has that plus the development and the support.

A very solid and functional configuration management tool that allows consistent management and configuration of a wide fleet of servers across multiple Data centres. The choice of modules for a wide range of products is very impressive. Also appreciate the open source community.

There is a bit of a learning curve before being comfortable, not to mention the initial setup and implementation is quite a large task. It would also be great if we could have more examples of large companies puppet implementations and workflow.

Puppet Enterprise is automation software. You can easily deploy various systems with Puppet. There is a clear map to understand configurations.

There is a steep learning curve for beginners. Other than that puppet is an excellent software for deployment automation.

One of the things I like most about puppet is application installation can be automated. Moving the code is extremely easy.

Even though there are no obvious issues with puppet, here are a few. The dashboard is not available. There is huge learning curve.

Puppet Enterprise shines as an automation powerhouse, replete with a vast range of modules and commendable open source community support.

However, its reliance on Ruby programming and complex learning curve presents significant scalability issues for broader enterprise use.

Allows automate configuration of newly deployed servers and avoid configuratio drift on existing ones. Single interface to conrol activities across entire environment

A bit hard to learn for system admonistrators as it uses Ruby based language and requires some knowlende of Ruby

Easy to manage and deploy your config on the fly. Its much easier to manage than its competitors like chef/salt/ansible etc. I like the partial deployments and on-demand deployment.

Exported resources conflict most of the time. It takes long to troubleshoot the conflict errors.
I wish puppet to based on Python library instead of Ruby. I personally feel there are more python developer than Ruby and pyhton developer feel home using Ansible rather Ruby based puppet.

Puppet encompass every operating system and offering deep tools for the main OSes. Initial setup is relatively simple, requiring the installation of a master server and client agents on each system that is to be managed. So it is must have tool

From there, the CLI (command-line interface) is straightforward, allowing module downloads and installation via the puppet command. Then, changes to the configuration files are required to tailor the module for the required task, and the clients that should receive the instructions will do so when they check in with the master or via a push that will trigger the modifications immediately.

Not very user friendly. Require deep and detail knowledge about the tool to get started. Prior knowledge is must have skill to use this tool.

It's a Very powerful tool for managing configuration of large estates, can be adapted to suit many different use cases

Learning curve to start a bit steep, some feature could be more intuitive, but once familiar with it it's easy enough to use

Nice Automation tools . Puppet Enterprise widely user as automation task. It has better support and help.

There is no huge complexity than other automation tools like salt, ansible. one drawback is agent installation of each node.

Makes it so much easier to provision new machines.

Running a masterless setup is more complicated than it should be.

Puppet is a good product to eliminate repeated works, such as pushing the same configuration across multiple systems. It also can be integrated with Foreman/Satellite for server management and provisioning.So, it's a must have product for managing mid to large scale of your IT infrastructure.Puppet is also capable of generating drift reports, which means sysadmins will understand what servers were configured improperly.Puppet also supports plugs to custom facts.

Mastering Puppet isn't an easy way.Setup of Puppet is often more difficult than Ansible.

Puppet is a very manageable application with YAML syntax. I can apply changes in production in one shot in 1000's of servers.

Sometimes it will break or skip some target hosts. need more efficiency. Also, need easiness in scaling puppet master.

Useful for medium-scale domains. Very verbose and versatile. User interaction is simple, and errors are usually pretty well explained.

Not as scalable as other solutions. Requires a central server. SSL certificates can get messed up, causing issues with deployments & agents running.

I've been a puppet users for years now in order to automate my devops tasks, Puppet Enterprise was the needed extension to compliment this.

The pricing is high so I would most likely stick to a cheaper solution that covers my basic needs rather than switching.

You just need to learn how Puppet language works and then you can start working with it and configure thousands of servers with one command. How amazing this is? This tool for sure helps sysadmin to make their lives easier.

Well, as I said you need to learn how to program in order for puppet to work properly but once learned, you´re read to go.

The ability to go back and look at previous reports to see what changes were made during previous puppet runs is really great, and it's easy to track the changes on machines.

I wish that some of the puppet supported modules would continue support (rather than losing support as they start to be picked up by other vendors).

The pros this puppet enterprise is central place where can manage the status of your infrastructure provide a web interface for the master server.

The con with puppet enterprise is that it requires a lot of effort due to its complexity, and requires a daemon to be installed on all machines and a central authority to be setup.

I use puppet to automate the installation/configuration of new servers mainly as web and mail servers, it has a very good gui and it's very easy to install.