Puppet Enterprise

What do you like best?

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.

What do you dislike?

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.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

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.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

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.