Puppet

““When you automate something and you put it in once you don’t have to think about it anymore, so you can look at other ways to develop and improve the product. If we didn’t have Puppet we wouldn’t be able to achieve these changes at the pace we are doing now. We have one view across all of our configuration, and without Puppet we wouldn’t have anywhere near the visibility and manageability we have today.””

““Seeing the expansion in Linux servers and VMs in the pipeline, we knew we needed to act to find ways to move faster and more efficiently. We could have hired two more engineers, but with the average starting salary of a Linux engineer costing 36,000 euros, we decided to look for a solution to streamline the process, standardize the environment and improve the agility of our VM deployment. This has saved us over 72,000 euros a year.””

“It was very important for us—the concept of infrastructure as code. We believed this would help for us and our customers to innovate faster. Here is where Puppet played an important role.”

““We look forward to making things easier and delivering to customers quicker.””

““This is an area where Puppet is helping a great deal.””

““This initiative alone will directly impact the bottom line in a very positive way.””

“We believe the future of transport is highly integrated and will change how we operate as a company. We now see ourselves as a technology company that manages roads, rather than an engineering firm. We are automating the heck out of everything to keep teams small and make sure that they focus on the right work. Having the right tools and capabilities, like Puppet, make it possible.”

““The large number of applications and the different languages, runtimes, development kits, and language libraries are always a challenge for IT management,” said Willi Bühler, Head of Application Technology at Interhyp. “In addition, as a financial service provider, we operate in an industry that is subject to strict compliance and risk management requirements. At the same time, we are required to weave compliance into our development process.””

““Since Puppet knows what it changes, we only needed to connect it to ServiceNow and add functions for documentation.””

““They are delivering IT environments to everyone in a third of the time.””

““Are the services configured as they should be? Did anything change? Is there a conflict between configuration processes? ... Puppet is great at answering these questions. ... Puppet brings consistency, and thus predictability into the environment. So when you have to upgrade a service, it’s much easier.””

““For us, Puppet is about converging state and about stability and alignment, keeping us maintained at a certain level,””

“Having Puppet Bolt as the central core component for patching solved a whole heap of problems for us. We had been waiting for something like tasks for a long time.”

““Our DevOps guys are not developers who code in Ruby — that’s not how they solve problems,” said Rudduck. “With Chef, you have to write a ton of Ruby code, and you have to have the dev mindset. Because of Puppet’s resource-oriented DSL, you don’t have to think like a developer; you can just think about the state of your resources.””

““Our mantra is ‘automate everything’ ... Puppet is great for us; I can’t think of any other way we would have gone.””

““in a few minutes’ work, we swapped in four new servers running SeisComP3, three new web servers, and completely replaced the messaging system between them,” Clitheroe said. “This is so repeatable that later in the week we did it again on additional cloud servers to give us a complete duplicate system for testing and development.””

““It took a couple of days, tediously logging in to each server and installing and configuring the required packages,” he said. “Even with the best intentions, it’s an error-prone approach that leaves us with fragile computer systems that are very hard to maintain. In the event of a disaster, recovery would be very difficult.””

““The big win here was just being able to treat AWS EC2 instances as regular old VMs, and let Puppet Enterprise do its magic,””

““Automation is the best documentation. Gone are the complex and out-of-date documents explaining how to create and install systems. They have been replaced by code which is used to automatically and repeatably create our critical IT systems.””

““[Puppet] allows us to rapidly roll out ... any new security compliance configurations imposed upon us by our information security team as well as our external regulators.””

“With Puppet fully integrated into our self-service platform, Finastra allows teams to provision secure, compliant cloud-based virtual machines in a federated, developer-friendly manner. It is a breakthrough that enables teams to get access to the resources they need quickly and focus on creating a pattern of continuous improvement knowing their environments will remain in a desired state which in turn reduces support efforts and increases our velocity of delivery.”

“With Puppet, the automation drift correction at scale is huge for us. If there is drift, it’s going to audit it every 30 minutes, so I don’t have to push something out to keep checking through drift and keep trying to set up that machine. It just happens on its own.”