Puppet Enterprise Reviews

Name: Puppet Enterprise
Brand: Puppet
Rating: 4.1 (12 reviews)

4.1 out of 5

12 reviews
100% willing to recommend

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What is Puppet Enterprise?

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.

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Puppet Enterprise is the #16 ranked solution in top Configuration Management solutions. PeerSpot users give Puppet Enterprise an average rating of 8.2 out of 10. Based on the analysis of the 12 most recent Puppet Enterprise reviews, the overall sentiment is positive, with a sentiment score of 7.3. Puppet Enterprise is most commonly compared to Microsoft Intune: Puppet Enterprise vs Microsoft Intune. Puppet Enterprise is popular among the midsize enterprise segment, accounting for 56% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a educational organization, accounting for 51% of all views.

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Featured reviews

Erik Ableson

Owner at Infrageeks

Puppet Enterprise is more suitable for clients working up much more structured deployment images they manage internally. Before choosing Puppet Enterprise, users should think seriously about what they're trying to accomplish and ensure they put the right pieces in place. Overall, I rate Puppet Enterprise an eight out of ten.

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Ramy Adly

HPC & Cloud systems administrator at Brightskies

We use public configurations for all nodes. This includes configurations for integrations, networks, packages, software, etc 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…

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BurhanShakil

Systems Engineer at Harvard University

The initial deployment is very easy; it's actually one of the best. Even before Puppet, we used to have one script that we used to run. The server was commissioned and then we'd run the script. Now we don't even have to do that because it's part of our image. For this reason, any new servers that we build already have Puppet installed. As it's part of our template, all we have to do is push the template and the new server automatically starts communicating. It pulls everything that it needs from the Puppet server directly. Deployment takes around 10 minutes per server. Our servers get the base policies first and then we can assign the role — the policies are based on their role. It takes roughly two to three runs through Puppet to get all of the policies in place. It sounds like a lot, but it's pretty straightforward.

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Puppet Enterprise mindshare

As of December 2024, the mindshare of Puppet Enterprise in the Configuration Management category stands at 1.2%, down from 3.2% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Configuration Management

PeerAnalyst reports

Type	Title	Date
Category	Configuration Management	Dec 21, 2024	Download
Product	Reviews, tips, and advice from real users	Dec 21, 2024	Download
Comparison	Puppet Enterprise vs Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform	Dec 21, 2024	Download
Comparison	Puppet Enterprise vs Microsoft Intune	Dec 21, 2024	Download
Comparison	Puppet Enterprise vs Microsoft Configuration Manager	Dec 21, 2024	Download

Title	Rating	Mindshare	Recommending
Microsoft Intune	4.1	12.0%	93%	233 interviews Add to research
Microsoft Configuration Manager	4.1	14.4%	91%	80 interviews Add to research

Valuable Features

"Puppet Enterprise is a stable solution."
"Puppet Enterprise has good functionalities."
"The most valuable features are the agent, high load balancing, and overall robustness and features."

Room for Improvement

"Puppet Enterprise should improve the general extensibility for places where they can't install it."
"Puppet Enterprise is more complex and difficult to configure."
"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."

Pricing

"Puppet Enterprise can be an expensive solution for smaller businesses."
"Puppet Enterprise’s pricing is competitive."
"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."

Deployment

Scalability

Puppet Enterprise scales well, supporting configurations from two nodes for high availability to managing 400 servers currently, with potential sluggishness beyond 500 VMs. It accommodates various endpoint types and supports both vertical and horizontal expansion, including a Federated Architecture for regional deployment. Primarily recommended for larger companies with mature processes, it handles enterprise clients across banking, finance, insurance, and telecom industries effectively, managing up to 500 nodes efficiently.