Hey guys, Just joined Puppet so looking to understand if Puppet is still used in your organisations? I am hearing that it is used by banks, Splunk and some companies. They got some funding recently from Blackrock which is why I am good to join them now. But wondering how competitive they are compared with IBM Ansible and Chef. Did I join a growing or sinking ship? Puppet funding from Blackrock Puppet, the Portland, Oregon-based infrastructure automation company, announced a $40 million debt round today from BlackRock Investments. https:/www.techcrunch.com/2020/07/16/puppet-announces-40-million-debt-round-from-blackrock/amp/ #puppet #ansible #chef
Plain and simple Puppet missed the container revolution. It’s still relevant to places with stateful infrastructure. Ansible beats them for ad-hoc changes (bolt was too late to the party). I see their market as super slow moving companies who are around 2010 levels tech-wise now and there’s money there. It’s declining if not gone from more progressive tech companies as they shift to cloud native and containers. When apps run in containers and data is in cloud native data stores there’s no more need for machines and hence no more need for puppet (even though your marketing says otherwise).
Don't really think puppet like service is needed for containers , Kubernates does that in a way and puppet like service is probably for the machines that host containers. Onset of cloud would reduce puppet usage, however , for large enterprises and for companies spanning multiple cloud vendors, inventory management is always a headache and fraught with problems. Puppet is by far a superior solution in the market today for the inventory and configuration management. Biggie like Google, Amazon may have their own in-house built solutions but not so tech savvy cos will rather use puppet like solutions.
I’d see most companies falling into two buckets. (1) We don’t have the experience to run kubernetes from scratch and will use GKE/EKS/etc (no need for puppet) (2) We will run kubernetes from scratch. I think (2) are those more progressive tech companies that are more likely to have or build something custom. I’m not saying NO market for Puppet for an org that gets into containers — just a hugely reduced market for it.
The only puppet I see in our company is me and some other employees 😂
I was at one bank, two finance companies, and 3 tech companies. I have never heard of Puppet. In NYC for all of it, almost a decade.
Not at Splunk
Ah okay. Thanks for clarifying! Might be something in the past as I am seeing references around in some docs.
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Puppet is great to use , has a definite use case it addresses for large companies but is also a bit complex to set-up at times and gets a lot more complex when everyone starts using it in the org , stepping on each other's toes ... Never used chef , ansible isn't exactly for the same use case as puppet. Maybe some application overlaps but they server different purpose.
Ah I see, I can see what you mean there. Puppet definitely does seem to suit the compliance and managing the "state" of configurations, etc. very well. For the other cases, Puppet did develop "Puppet Bolt" tasks that serves the ad hoc use cases. Though I don't know how much Bolt is used. Probably not as much as it only developed a year or so ago.
Never heard of puppet bolt, I will check that out. Thanks.