1 year ago

As a Puppet educator, I want to share with you some of the myths about Puppet that I encounter when I’m teaching classes, reading Reddit posts or even trying to explain my job to people who are in software but don’t entirely understand what I do. I also want to share one that I personally subscribed to until a couple of weeks ago, despite working at Puppet for almost two years.

For starters, Open Source Puppet (OSP), the language and agent combination which powers Puppet Enterprise (PE), is free.

Many Puppet Enterprise subscribers start out building their infrastructure with OSP, and then move up to Puppet Enterprise as their needs change. Puppet Enterprise adds a lot of preconfigured infrastructure automation and a central server to maintain it from.