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CloudMapper vs. Perforce Puppet

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
CloudMapper
Score 0.0 out of 10
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CloudMapper helps users to analyze Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments. It is used to check for correct configuration, examine IAM policies to identify admin users and roles, or principals with specific privileges, and looked for unused resources, and view network visualizations.N/A
Perforce Puppet
Score 8.9 out of 10
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Puppet Enteprise is an IT automation and configuration management solution that enables users to manage and automate infrastructure and complex workflows. The vendor states Puppet Enterprise combines both model‑based and task-based capabilities in a way that enables organizations to scale their multi-cloud infrastructure as their automation footprint grows, with more flexibility from both agent-based and agentless capabilities.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
CloudMapper

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Perforce Puppet
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Anonymous
Chose Perforce Puppet
As I mentioned before Ansible is a great tool. There is no question about it. It has very simple syntax (YAML), is very easy to learn, and is scalable as well. But the only thing that ansible lacked at that time was the actual agent that have to go into each server. Ansible …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Perforce Puppet
[Both] products are comparable. There is a good open source community for each, but we found Puppet to be the most mature for our specific use case.
Chose Perforce Puppet
Puppet was selected before I joined the team, had it been my choice I would have much rather went with Chef as it has the ability to do things that Puppet has not yet added to their system such a the ability to quickly query what host currently are allowing puppet to maintain …
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Mark Gargiulo
Senior Automation Engineer
Chose Perforce Puppet
I have not used any other Configuration Management System since cfengine back in about 2007 so I have little current input on alternatives to Puppet having never used them, though Chef seems to have gained some traction as has Ansible.
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Colby Shores
DevOps Engineer
Chose Perforce Puppet
We have used SaltStack by proxy of utilizing Ceph since it uses SaltStack to automate configuration changes to it's cluster. I found it easy to use however extremely limiting when it comes to scale as its not a proper language with a central data store like Hiera. We plan to …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Perforce Puppet
Puppet was the first software for data center automation that we incorporated in our infrastructure and we were pleased enough to keep going with it.
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Charles Inglese
Senior System Engineer
Chose Perforce Puppet
HPSA is a licensed product and incurs significant upfront investment costs due to COTS licensing. Puppet Data Center Automation has a significantly lower upfront investment and product documentation is more readily available. Chef is a very similar offering, however, at the …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Perforce Puppet
Puppet has a very wide user base with many organizations tht support it as well as conferences and events. Puppet DSL is based in Ruby while the server is now in Clojure providing ease of configuration with the power of scale. Puppet is a great entry point into the world of …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Perforce Puppet
I was put on a team that initially adopted Puppet. However from what I see, it fits and makes sense.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Perforce Puppet
We evaluated Chef and Ansible. Puppet Data Center Automation was cleaner and we were more familiar with the product.
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User Ratings
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
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Most of the major issues that people had with the language have been addressed in Puppet 4 which primarily pertain to the limitations of the language and its ability to scale. It would be nice to allow for full ruby support as an unsupported option though so developers are able to reference their own data sources dynamically.
Colby Shores | TrustRadius Reviewer
Colby Shores
DevOps Engineer
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Pros
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  • Provides a reliable mechanism for deploying infrastructure-as-code, especially when integrated with source control (such as Git).
  • Manages system configuration drift to provide greater stability and system up-time; the same configuration-as-code can be pushed out over and over.
  • A strong asset when moving teams towards DevOps by providing development a way to take control of their own assets.
Anthony Parcero | TrustRadius Reviewer
Anthony Parcero
Release Engineer
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Cons
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  • Steep learning curve for first time users.
  • The complexity can get a little overwhelming in a more collaborative deployment methodology across multiple platforms and data centers.
  • Some external changes to Puppet like the new Puppet 4 architecture can cause considerable time consuming migration efforts especially if you have a lot of legacy classes and configuration that do not conform readily to the new design.
Mark Gargiulo | TrustRadius Reviewer
Mark Gargiulo
Senior Automation Engineer
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Support Rating
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Puppet has top class support. You can simply mail them with their query and they will respond to your query in a timely manner. We do have enterprise license for puppet. Also there is a vibrant community for puppet out there. So even if you dont purchase a premium support option you can simply google your queries and get answers
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Anonymous
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Alternatives Considered
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Puppet was selected before I joined the team, had it been my choice I would have much rather went with Chef as it has the ability to do things that Puppet has not yet added to their system such a the ability to quickly query what host currently are allowing puppet to maintain their files or the ability to run remote commands without having to include it in a manifest like Chef does with the knife command. Salt allows you to do similar things to the knife command that is included with Chef, and also allows you to transfer files quickly to multiple host at once with a short simple command.
Alan-Michael Barnes | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Return on Investment
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  • With all the DevOps and automation that we have going on, we save a ton of time on the configuration of the server. It's safe to say that configuring servers via console or via UI is a thing of the past.
  • We try to get all the things done by using a centralized repo (GitHub). Puppet is one tool that actually gets the actual work done.
  • The small amount that we spent on purchasing premium Puppet is completely justified because of the time and effort that this tool actually helps us save.
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Anonymous
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