Puppet

Puppet is a software configuration management tool used to manage stages of the IT infrastructure lifecycle.

Inception: 2005
Website: https://puppet.com/open-source/#osp, https://www.puppet.com/

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Puppet is a software configuration management tool used to manage stages of the IT infrastructure lifecycle.

Puppet uses an open-core model; its free-software version was released under version 2 of the GNU General Public License (GPL) until version 2.7.0, and later releases use the Apache License, while Puppet Enterprise uses a proprietary license. Puppet and Puppet Enterprise operate on multiple Unix-like systems (including Linux, Solaris, BSD, Mac OS X, AIX, HP-UX) and have Microsoft Windows support. Puppet itself is written in Ruby. Facter, Puppet’s cross-platform system profiling library, is also written in Ruby. Puppet Server and Puppet DB are written in Clojure.

It is developed by Puppet Inc., which is owned by Perforce, which is owned in turn by private equity firms.

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Design

Puppet consists of a custom declarative language to describe system configuration.

Puppet is model-driven, requiring limited programming knowledge to use.

Puppet is designed to manage the configuration of Unix-like and Microsoft Windows systems declaratively.

Also known as Puppet Labs, Reductive Labs

Notable quotes

“Without the good will of manipulators and audience alike, puppets cannot sustain an illusion of life.”
— Matthew Isaac Cohen, The Art of Puppetry
“My excitement about making the [puppet] team was slightly tempered by the fact that everyone who auditioned had made the team.”
— Phil Vischer, Me, Myself, & Bob Nelson Books, 2006, , p. 36.
“A good character is almost always derived from an aspect of the performer's personality.”
— Dave Goelz, Muppeteer, p. 96
“Working as I do with movement of puppet creatures, I'm always struck by the feebleness of our efforts to achieve naturalistic movement. Just looking at the incredible movement of a lizard or a bird, or even the smallest insect, can be a very humbling experience.”
— Jim Henson p. 146
“Kids come to visit the [Sesame Street] studio and they and the puppets are old friends. Those puppets are in their living rooms every day. As soon as a puppet goes up on somebody's arm, the puppeteer ceases to exist. The child comes right up to talk to Grover or the Count. They don't look at the puppeteer. They don't look at the monitor.”
— Jon Stone p. 74
“Well, the thing to remember here is that my own personality has absolutely nothing to do with this weirdo.”
— Dave Goelz, Secrets of the Muppets episode

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