Overview

Puppet, an automated administrative engine for your *nix systems, performs administrative tasks (such as adding users, installing packages, and updating server configurations) based on a centralized specification.

Puppet can let you focus more on how things should be done and less on doing them. Let computers do what they are good at, precisely perform patterns, so you can focus on creating solutions. The act of specifying the services will help you clarify the systems you actually need and once your services are modelled using Puppet, your ability to scale and recover from hardware failure could just be plugging in a new blade, setting the hostname and starting puppet.

If your systems aren’t going to change or scale you probably don’t need Puppet, but your competition might…

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Manager: James Turnbull, Jeff McCune, Jesse Wolfe, Luke Kanies, Markus Roberts, Matt Robinson, Nan Liu, Nick Lewis, Paul Berry, Redmine Admin, Rein Henrichs, Teyo Tyree
Developer: Benedikt Böhm, Blake Barnett, Brice Figureau, Bruce Williams, Bryan Allen, Bryan Kearney, Calimero Calimero, Christian Hofstaedtler, David Lutterkort, David Escala, David Schmitt, Deepak Giridharagopal, Digant Kasundra, Erik Hetzner, Ethan Rowe, Ian Taylor, Jeff McCune, Jesse Wolfe, Jordan Curzon, Jos Backus, Kelsey Hightower, Krzysztof Wilczynski, Lawrence Ludwig, Marc Fournier, Markus Roberts, Martin Englund, Mathias Gug, Matt Robinson, Michael DeHaan, Nan Liu, Nick Lewis, Nigel Kersten, Paul Berry, Paul Nasrat, Peter Meier, Puppet Bugs, Rein Henrichs, Ricky Zhou, Ryan Hutchison, Sam Livingston-Gray, Sonny Cook, Steve McIntosh, Steven Jenkins, Stéphan Gorget, Thom May, Thomas Bellman, Todd Zullinger, Trevor Vaughan
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