We performed a comparison between Puppet Enterprise and Red Hat Satellite based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Red Hat, Microsoft, HCLTech and others in Configuration Management."It has helped with compliance. It has helped to ensure that devices comply with the organization's policy. If they are not compliant and secure, they cannot access the resources."
"Technical support, in general, has been quite helpful."
"The Autopilot feature is fantastic. It is a Microsoft product, so it deals best with Microsoft operating systems, but it can integrate with iOS, Mac OS, Linux, and Android."
"Application deployment and keeping the devices secure no matter where they are, by having this cloud solution — that has been great."
"It helps implement conditional access policies to restrict mobile users from accessing potentially dangerous emails."
"I like the tool's integration with Apple. Anyone who creates an ID in Intune will get an Apple ID."
"The ability to (somewhat) manage full Windows 10 computers including EXE-based or MSI-based application deployments using Azure Active Directory as Identity."
"The ability to wipe data from and reset devices is one of the most important and valuable features. If a device is reported stolen, we can freeze it or wipe the data from it, preventing data leakage."
"Anything that we manage through Puppet always runs perfectly."
"Puppet Enterprise has good functionalities."
"Puppet Enterprise has reduced the time of production changes or environment changes."
"The versatility is great."
"Puppet3 and 4 series provides optimum deployment solutions for infrastructure and applications."
"Puppet Enterprise is a stable solution."
"The most valuable features are the agent, high load balancing, and overall robustness and features."
"The main purpose for this automation tool would be: deploying, controlling, ordering change for the system and IT Infrastructure."
"The product helps me to manage a large number of servers from one console."
"The product allows us to handle patching for multiple servers at a time manually."
"Patch management is, for sure, most valuable. For license management and patch management, I would rate it a 10 out of 10."
"Technical support has been good."
"We've been getting reasonable support from Red Hat."
"It cuts down significantly on the administrative time it takes to patch systems in a large environment."
"Satellite gives administrators the ability to target deployments and only send out the updates or provision updates to certain groups."
"It plays a significant role in managing the lifecycle of our systems and ensures that we can effectively control and update the software versions to align with our organization's needs."
"It would really be helpful to have the option to manage server operating systems as well, like Windows Server, at least. That way, we could scrap the use of SCCM, which requires a lot of on-premises infrastructure."
"There should be more focus on mobile device security and integration."
"Microsoft Intune lags market leaders, such as Apperian, in its MAM capabilities."
"Intune's areas for improvement revolve around security and certificate management."
"The solution requires Mac support."
"Intune should be much more granular in terms of supporting more Android cellular devices."
"Microsoft Intune lacks the ability to provide seamless remote assistance or remote control."
"The UI also needs improvements because it is complex for end-users. We have had feedback from a few users in our organization who found the UI is not feasible for tracking and analyzing all the processes and monitoring all the devices."
"We would like Puppet to add more integration for applications."
"Puppet Enterprise should improve the general extensibility for places where they can't install it."
"There's a lot of scope for enhancement on the DevSecOps side. They should definitely include features for compliance, for both the Linux and Windows side of the devices, as well as for network devices. Compliance is something they need to work on."
"Puppet Enterprise is more complex and difficult to configure."
"At the beginning the initial setup was kind of complex."
"The solution has really complex code, you have to understand the Ruby language. However, once you know the code then you can move ahead without any problems."
"It's a bit of a pain point to make sure that everything works once we've upgraded it because Puppet has been evolving pretty fast."
"The product's automation capabilities need enhancement."
"Regarding the product's ability to support third-party tools, Red Hat doesn't support all the layers from the open-source version of Linux."
"Red Hat Satellite's pricing needs improvement."
"I would rate the pricing a seven out of ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive. The licensing is a bit expensive."
"There needs to be some margin for improvement in terms of the way Satellite manages subscriptions. It is still very confusing when we have different contracts or different bundles of subscriptions, and we need to manage those within Satellite in a way that's very user-friendly."
"Improving integration could lead to a more unified management experience for multiple operating systems within our data center."
"Automation can always be improved and refined to continue to make it better."
"The product could have more diversity in what it is able to deploy and might do better if it was not dedicated to Red Hat products only."
Puppet Enterprise doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Configuration Management with 12 reviews while Red Hat Satellite is ranked 4th in Configuration Management with 22 reviews. Puppet Enterprise is rated 8.2, while Red Hat Satellite is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Puppet Enterprise writes "A set-it-and-forget-it management solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Red Hat Satellite writes "A good product for managing patches and updates that could be more robust and up-to-date". Puppet Enterprise is most compared with AWS Systems Manager, Microsoft Configuration Manager, BigFix, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, whereas Red Hat Satellite is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, SUSE Manager, Microsoft Configuration Manager, AWS Systems Manager and vCenter Configuration Manager.
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