Puppet Enterprise Valuable Features

BS
Systems Engineer at Harvard University

Puppet has a big code repository hosted at puppet forge. Most of common tools and applications can be managed out of the box or by downloading the respective module from PuppetForge.

There are a couple of factory features included that I like. Anything that we manage through Puppet always runs perfectly. The ability to have infrastructure as a code is nice. Every two or three years we upgrade to the most recent version of Linux and build new machines. Afterward, it's just a matter of assigning roles; then we can forget about it and let it do its thing. 

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Erik  Ableson - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at Infrageeks

Puppet Enterprise is a stable solution.

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FH
IT Operations Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The most valuable features vs others:  Out-of-the-box Scalability, Role Based Access Control, Device State Control, Full Internet Based Solution, Secure and Autonomous Enrolment and a Robust Product with great community Support.

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Ramy Adly - PeerSpot reviewer
HPC & Cloud systems administrator at Brightskies

Puppet Enterprise is well-organized and structured. It is stable and can be managed easily. You can manage everything and organize everything in a very good way. Automation saves time and provides consistency over all the nodes.

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JW
Business Development Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Puppet Enterprise has good functionalities.

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it_user57903 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal at a tech company with 51-200 employees

Declarative nature of Puppet with its hub spoke architecture for automation using agents is the best feature.

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DM
Senior Unix Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

I like the way it keeps the configuration management profile simple. The programming in it is based on the stage-based coding in BYML, which is very comfortable for us to use. 

The organization of the overall product in terms of usage is very good. 

The number of modules available and the compatibility with a large number of devices makes it simple to use. It was very helpful in managing the server infrastructure on both Linux and Windows platforms, as well as on the network side on the Cisco switches. 

The versatility is great.

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it_user2652 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at a non-tech company with 10,001+ employees

The valuable features I found are installing packages remotely and pushing files from a centralized server. Also, we can create users and monitor services remotely.

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MP
Senior Site Infrastructure Engineer at Kurungsiku
I work with puppet several weeks back, helping a client using puppet enterprise to manage Windows servers. Puppet is solid, the enterprise version have installer wizard that will also install all puppet requirements like MySQL. Puppet could be used in the simplest way. Only one file manifest, or you could split a file per host or you can follow the best practice where you create classes and import that class on a manifest. You can even extend your manifest with ruby. Puppet support Linux, Windows and UNIX. Puppet documentation is also good. View full review »
it_user898530 - PeerSpot reviewer
Co-Founder and Consulting Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

There are two kind of Puppets: Enterprise and Open Source. So, I use Puppet Enterprise, it's helped promote the console and the recording, the reading, controlling, the checking of managed change and putting the things back together.

I like it as the main. I can be relaxed, knowing that everything is in the state that it should be without taking many steps to find out how and to fix the things where there were changes properly ensures that.

It saves us time, we can apply patches through Windows servers, with our tools. But, with Puppet, it can save us approximately 38 hours a month.

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SM
Technical Consultant at Atgen Software Solutions LLP

Puppet3 and 4 series provides optimum deployment solutions for infrastructure and applications.

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