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What do you like best about Puppet Enterprise?

I love the support, the community, the puppet forge. Oh how I could go on. Puppet has revolutionized our infrastructure. It is the best tool I've ever used. If you are on the fence about using puppet, do it. If you are using open source, I HIGHLY recommend you upgrade to enterprise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Puppet Enterprise?

The initial setup of your infrastructure takes a bit of work. Getting your puppet master set up, the puppetdb configured, and your hiera structure set up takes quite a bit, but once its in place it works great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Puppet Enterprise:

I highly advise using enterprise. I do advise consulting their professional services when getting your installation set up right. i also highly recommend getting trained. Their training is worth it so much. Puppetize Live is worth it too if you have a chance to go to conference. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Puppet Enterprise solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are delivering our applications faster. We are securing everything automatically, and we are reducing the complexities of our audit through the mere use of our manifests being delivered to the audtors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What is Puppet Enterprise?

Puppet Enterprise helps you know what's in your infrastructure, and how it's configured across all the physical components of your data center; your virtualized and cloud infrastructure; and everything you're running in containers. Puppet automatically keeps everything in its desired state, enforcing consistency and keeping you compliant, while giving you complete control to make changes as your business needs evolve. Only Puppet includes desired state conflict detection and situational awareness, and comes with over 5,000 prebuilt supported, approved and community-contributed modules.

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Deliver and operate constantly modern software with the leading infrastructure-as-code platform.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Unlike other solutions, Puppet Enterprise is designed to scale your configuration management practices across teams and processes while maintaining holistic and continuous management. Puppet's declarative, model-driven approach and simple configuration domain-specific language makes it easy to adopt, scale, and meet your use cases, even as your needs expand. Puppet's built-in intelligence enables it to do things such as isolate failures, report on necessary configuration changes, detect when two or more pieces of infrastructure code are trying to manage the same configuration, and report on system configurations that aren't even managed by Puppet.


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Shivani P.
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Shivani P.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Puppet Service"
Automated so many tasks and for daily routine, I do not need to manually perform tasks, I have automated several tasks via Puppet.
Vikas G.
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Vikas G.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"One of the most widely used Configuration Management tool"
Updates are quite often. Bugs are very soon. It has its own declarative language. It works on Windows and Unix both. Nice documentation. Commu...
Anton S.
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Anton S.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
3.5 out of 5
"Good declarative software configuration management tool that can be scaled well"
If you structure your code to follow the official "the roles and profiles method" - then it is easy to build a reusable and configurable configurat...
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Anton S.
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What do you like best about Puppet Enterprise?

If you structure your code to follow the official "the roles and profiles method" - then it is easy to build a reusable and configurable configuration management system.

A lot of ready-to-use modules.

You can extend Puppet by writing Ruby code.

With proper architecture/design - you can scale Puppet to manage tens of thousands of servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Puppet Enterprise?

Puppet is declarative and its code does not have strict order - thus sometimes it is hard to manage the order of resource creation, for example.

Language itself is also a bit weird and feels a bit unnatural.

To scale it well, you would need to learn existing "custom" approaches and most likely change the way you initially deployed Puppet and set up clients to talk to Puppet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Puppet Enterprise:

Puppet works well for big and small scale, a lot of ready-to-use modules make it easy to start using Puppet, declarative language is weird but fine.

So if you need a continuous (not sporadic) configuration management tool - Puppet is a decent choice. But before making the final decision - I would suggest learning other tools as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Puppet Enterprise solving and how is that benefiting you?

Software configuration management solution for tens of thousands of servers (with proper architecture, of course).

Ability to test configuration changes before deploying to production. Although, for a big scale (servers and code versions) - you would need to define your own testing approach.

Re-using configuration management code, abstracting it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vikas G.
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What do you like best about Puppet Enterprise?

Updates are quite often.

Bugs are very soon.

It has its own declarative language.

It works on Windows and Unix both.

Nice documentation.

Community edition available.

Big open source community. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Puppet Enterprise?

Doing the setup of Puppet is one of the most tedious tasks. Also, we need to be comfortable with its declarative language. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Puppet Enterprise solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is the most widely used configuration management tool that eradicates the need of learning programming language and is frequently updated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shivani P.
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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Puppet Enterprise?

Automated so many tasks and for daily routine, I do not need to manually perform tasks, I have automated several tasks via Puppet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Puppet Enterprise?

Long Queues take higher time to complete one single Run. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Puppet Enterprise solving and how is that benefiting you?

BEst integration management system so far I worked upon Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shivam S.
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Puppet is one of the best monitoring tool as compared to chef and Ansible as it is creating manifest file which is quite good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Puppet Enterprise?

Easy to deploy and easy to maintain in order to perform certain task and generate certificate in order to get the response done. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Puppet Enterprise?

Very difficult to setting it up on the server for the first time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Puppet Enterprise solving and how is that benefiting you?

Creating manifest files and showing them demonstration of deploy which would be very beneficial. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Puppet Enterprise?

we deployed apps all instances using puppet master to all child nodes.

easy to manage instance .

monitoring is easy.

we need only few agent to manage multiple puppet child instances Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Puppet Enterprise?

hard to code.

if any region puppet service is down then you cant use there regions child instanc.

we depend only most of puppet master

we first need to install client on all instances. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Puppet Enterprise solving and how is that benefiting you?

we had deployed puppet master on all aws regios wherever is our instance is present ec2. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Describe the project or task Puppet Enterprise helped with:

It helped automate tasks like installing various programs like apache, logstash, elastic search, etc.

It helped in the deployment of a ready-to-use web server with a dummy application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Puppet Enterprise?

structure

easy of use

re-usability

cross-platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Puppet Enterprise?

Initial setup and understanding. Environmental split up and use of Hiera. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Puppet Enterprise solving and how is that benefiting you?

Automation of tasks and installation.

Save person-hours and remove human errors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Edward Y.
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Systems Operations Engineer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Aleksey Z.
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Describe the project or task Puppet Enterprise helped with:

Puppet helps us to automate server and service deployment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Puppet Enterprise?

Easy to write configurations. Huge amount of documentation. With puppet we confident server and service state are the same across all environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Puppet Enterprise?

Past years community support significant reduced. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Puppet Enterprise:

If you need provisioning system puppet is the best one. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Puppet Enterprise solving and how is that benefiting you?

With puppet we confident server and service state are the same across all environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Thomas M.
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Information Technology and Services
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What do you like best about Puppet Enterprise?

I like how easy it is to track changes on machines. Also the ability to go back and look at previous reports to see what changes were made during previous puppet runs is really great. Further, the number of modules written for Puppet by third parties show it's maturity in the landscape of configuration management software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Puppet Enterprise?

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). Also, Puppet Enterprise is pretty expensive compared to some alternatives. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Puppet Enterprise:

Puppet Enterprise is more expensive than other options. It has good software support support. It also has many modules both written and supported by Puppetlabs as well as modules written by third party companies and individuals. I would recommend Puppet Enterprise to individuals or companies that needed to keep a fleet of machines (whether it be hundreds of identical machines or a couple dozen similar machines) configuration settings consistent over time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Puppet Enterprise solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use it to track changes across our fleet of machines and to ensure consistency across our entire environment and datacenters. We have found Puppet Enterprise to be excellent in getting from an unpuppetized environment to close to 100% penetration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Puppet Enterprise?

Puppet enterprise has phenomenal services that allow you to easily bring your infrastracture from a simple CI pipeline to a CD pipeline with the orchestrator and code manager. It's awesome to have PR's that get merged into our production branch make their way from source control all the way to our production nodes without any intervention. It's a huge devops enabler. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Puppet Enterprise?

The thing i dislike about puppet enterprise is they lack examples of how people in big companies are using puppet enterprise in an automated fashion. Their docs just show and explain examples using clickops in the PE console. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Puppet Enterprise:

Read the documentation and also read the paper that discusses the differences between puppet and chef posted on puppets website. This will really help shed some light on the true differences and show where puppet really shines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Puppet Enterprise solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are solving the problem of being able to reduce risk in making changes to infrastructure along with preventing lost knowledge from employeers who leave or even tribal knowledge by supporting infrastructure as code practices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.