Platform-Specific Pages¶

Some of the community members have also created wiki pages devoted to notes on a particular platform:

• Puppet Debian
• Puppet Ubuntu
• Puppet Red Hat Centos
• Puppet Mac OSX
• Puppet SuSE
• Puppet Solaris
• Puppet Open Bsd
• Puppet OpenIndiana
• Puppet Gentoo
• PuppetAIX
• Puppet Free BSD
• Puppet Cygwin
• Puppet HP-UX
• Puppet ESX
• Puppet ESXi

Stable Platforms¶

Puppet can work well under a broad range of operating systems and system configurations. Below is a brief list of configurations with reported successes. If you have an operational configuration that isn’t listed here, please add it to the list:

-   CentOS 4/Linux 2.6 (x86\_64, i386, VMWare ESX 32-bit)
-   CentOS 5/Linux 2.6 (athlon, i386, VMWare ESX 32-bit)
-   Darwin 8.9.1 (PowerPC, i386)
-   Debian 3.1 'sarge'/Linux 2.6 (i386, amd64)
-   Debian 4.0 'etch'/Linux 2.6 (i386, xen686, amd64, powerpc)
-   Debian 5.0 'lenny'/Linux 2.6 (xen686, amd64)
-   Fedora Core 2 (i386)
-   Fedora Core 3 (i386)
-   Fedora Core 4 (i386)
-   Fedora Core 5 (i386)
-   Fedora Core 6 (i386)
-   Fedora 7 (i386/x86\_64)
-   Fedora 8 (i386/x86\_64)
-   Fedora 9 (i386/x86\_64)
-   Fedora 10 (i386/x86\_64)
-   Fedora 11 (i386/x86\_64)
-   Fedora 12 (i386/x86\_64)
-   Fedora 13 (i386/x86\_64)
-   Fedora 14 (i386/x86\_64)
-   FreeBSD 4.7 (i386)
-   FreeBSD 6.0 (i386)
-   Gentoo Linux (x86\_64)
-   Mandriva Corporate Server 4 (i586)
-   OpenBSD 4.1 (i386)
-   OpenBSD 4.2 (i386)
-   OpenBSD 4.3 (i386)
-   Oracle Linux 4 (x86\_64)
-   Oracle Linux 5 (x86\_64)
-   OSX 10.x.x
-   RHEL 3 ES (VMWare ESX 32-bit)
-   RHEL 4 ES,AS (i386, x86\_64)
-   RHEL 5 (i386, x86\_64)
-   RHEL 6 (i386, x86\_64)
-   Solaris 2.6 (i386, sparc)
-   Solaris 7 (i386, sparc)
-   Solaris 8 (i386, sparc)
-   Solaris 9 (i386, sparc)
-   Solaris 10 (i386, x86\_64, sparc64)
-   SuSE Linux 8/Linux 2.4 (i386)
-   SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10/Linux 2.6 (i586)
-   SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10/Linux 2.6 (i586)
-   SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9/Linux 2.6 (i586, x86\_64)
-   Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty GNU/Linux 2.6 (i686, xen686)
-   Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy GNU/Linux 2.6 (i686, xen686)
-   Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy GNU/Linux 2.6 (i686, xen686)
-   Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid GNU/Linux 2.6 (i686, xen686)
-   Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty GNU/Linux 2.6 (i686, xen686)
-   Ubuntu 10.04 GNU/Linux 2.6 (i686, xen686)
-   Ubuntu 10.10 GNU/Linux 2.6 (i686, xen686)
-   Ubuntu 10.10 GNU/Linux 2.6 (i686, xen686)
-   Ubuntu 11.04 GNU/Linux 2.6 (i686, xen686)