In short, Puppet is an open-source configuration management tool. However that might raise lot of questions. Let me try and provide some more details that help you understand the real power of Puppet.

Basically a configuration management tool in information technology domain provides detailed recording and updating of information that describes an enterprise’s hardware and software. Puppet also runs on many Unix-like systems as well as on Microsoft Windows and helps an organization to centralize and automate the configuration management. Puppet is designed to manage the configuration of these operating systems.

Puppet was founded in 2005 by Luke Kanies and was released by the company Puppet Labs. It is written in Ruby and released as free software under the GNU General Public License (GPL) until version 2.7.0 and the Apache License 2.0 after that. Google Ventures, Cisco, Vmware are some of the key investors in Puppet and are the key forces to drive the company along with Luke Kanies, who is a finalist for the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2016 Award in the Pacific Northwest.

Today more than 30,000 companies â€” including more than two thirds of the Fortune 100 â€” use Puppetâ€™s open source and commercial solutions to achieve situational awareness and drive software change with confidence. Some of the notable names are Dell, Intel, ADP, Uber, Salesforce, etc.

Here’s an interesting infographic we found on Puppet Vs Chef.

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