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Pros
"The solution provides good security for firewalls in the banking industry."

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"The most valuable features are the agent, high load balancing, and overall robustness and features.""Puppet3 and 4 series provides optimum deployment solutions for infrastructure and applications.""The main purpose for this automation tool would be: deploying, controlling, ordering change for the system and IT Infrastructure.""Puppet Enterprise has good functionalities.""Anything that we manage through Puppet always runs perfectly.""Puppet Enterprise is a stable solution.""The versatility is great.""Puppet Enterprise has reduced the time of production changes or environment changes."

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Cons
"Reports cannot be generated manually or without running a job."

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"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 should improve the general extensibility for places where they can't install it.""Puppet Enterprise is more complex and difficult to configure.""At the beginning the initial setup was kind of complex.""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 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.""We would like Puppet to add more integration for applications."

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  • "The main thing that we noticed when we switched from the enterprise version to the community version was the difference in cost — the infrastructure is pretty expensive."
  • "Depending on the size of the organization there is a point when the price of Puppet Enterprise should be lower. However, they provide really good functionality, features, and capabilities."
  • "Puppet Enterprise’s pricing is competitive."
  • "Puppet Enterprise can be an expensive solution for smaller businesses."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The solution provides good security for firewalls in the banking industry.
    Top Answer:The solution utilizes a licensing model.
    Top Answer:Creating new jobs can be cumbersome because reports have to be scripted manually. Over time, familiarity with this process makes it easier. Reports cannot be generated manually or without running a… more »
    Top Answer:Puppet Enterprise is a stable solution.
    Top Answer:Puppet Enterprise can be an expensive solution for smaller businesses.
    Top Answer:Puppet Enterprise should improve the general extensibility for places where they can't install it.
    Ranking
    2nd
    Views
    21
    Comparisons
    11
    Reviews
    1
    Average Words per Review
    362
    Rating
    7.0
    Unranked
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    Server Automation
    Puppet
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    Overview

    CA Server Automation is an integrated solution that automates provisioning, patching, and configuration of operating systems, storage resources and application components across physical, virtual and public cloud systems.

    This comprehensive solution integrates and automates provisioning processes, standardizes configurations, and simplifies workflows to successfully manage the complexity of continuously changing virtualized environments.

    • Accelerate application deployment
    • Streamline service provisioning
    • Improve server utilization
    • Build elasticity and improve operational efficiency


    Puppet Data Center Automation helps sysadmins automate configuration and management of machines and the software running on them. With our software, businesses can make rapid, repeatable changes and automatically enforce the consistency of systems and devices, across physical and virtual machines, on prem or in the cloud.

    Sample Customers
    HCL Technologies, Logicalis, UOLDIVEO
    Los Alamos National Laboratory, GitHub, IP Commerce, Cedexis, Spiceworks, Server Density, Swisstopo, Chockstone, Constant Contact, NICS, Citrix
    Top Industries
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    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Educational Organization41%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Computer Software Company10%
    Government6%
    Company Size
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    REVIEWERS
    Small Business69%
    Midsize Enterprise8%
    Large Enterprise23%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business10%
    Midsize Enterprise47%
    Large Enterprise43%

    CA Server Automation is ranked 2nd in Cluster Provisioning with 1 review while Puppet Enterprise doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Cluster Provisioning with 12 reviews. CA Server Automation is rated 7.0, while Puppet Enterprise is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of CA Server Automation writes "A quick input response and useful real-time logs but reports require manual scripting". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Puppet Enterprise writes "A set-it-and-forget-it management solution". CA Server Automation is most compared with , whereas Puppet Enterprise is most compared with AWS Systems Manager, Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager, BigFix and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.

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