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Learn about new features, changes, and improvements to UpGuard: Puppet and Chef have both evolved significantly—suffice to say, we’re long overdue in revisiting these two heavy-hitters. In this article we’ll take a fresh look at their core components along with new ecosystem tools and integrations that continue to position them as leading enterprise IT automation platforms.

As of this writing, 79 vulnerabilities have been documented across Puppet’s ecosystem, with an average severity level of medium, and most of these applying to open source Puppet and Puppet Enterprise.

The move of infrastructure configuration to infrastructure as code (IaC) facilitated by devops tools such as Chef and Puppet means that there is greater scope for running lightweight tests to verify any changes that will be rolled out in your infrastructure.

Chef and Puppet continue to expand their automation platforms in response to the needs of the DevOps-enabled enterprise, with new features such as Chef Delivery and the Puppet Code Manager helping to streamline the continuous integration/delivery pipeline.