Perforce Puppet

Perforce Puppet

53 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Perforce Puppet	Score8.9 out of 10	N/A	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

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Perforce Puppet
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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No setup fee

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	Perforce Puppet
Considered Both Products	Perforce Software Verified User 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User 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. Incentivized Helpful? Alan-Michael Barnes Sr. DevOps at Vungle (Entertainment, 51-200 employees) 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Mark Gargiulo Senior Automation Engineer at NTENT (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) 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. Incentivized Helpful? Colby Shores DevOps Engineer in Information Technology at Voice Media Group (Marketing and Advertising, 201-500 employees) 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User 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. Incentivized Helpful? Charles Inglese Senior System Engineer in Information Technology at Exeter Government Services, LLC (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees) 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Perforce Puppet I was put on a team that initially adopted Puppet. However from what I see, it fits and makes sense. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Perforce Puppet We evaluated Chef and Ansible. Puppet Data Center Automation was cleaner and we were more familiar with the product. Incentivized Helpful?
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Perforce Puppet
Likelihood to Recommend	7.0 (12 ratings)
Support Rating	8.0 (1 ratings)