I am impressed by what Puppet can do. It can install and configure software quickly. It is a simple push to multiple servers and the servers are configured. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The main issue that I have with it is that I need to have a puppet agent installed on each server. I also would like to use this to push deployments of wars and html pages. However, it is not a small feat to accomplish. To deploy to my environments, I had to learn Ruby to get the deployments to deploy in a fashion which I could verify. I can get more details if needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The scope of possibilities it has and the growth in managing different technologies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not being too friendly in managing networking devices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The flexibility and power of PE is great. There are many ways to fit it into an existing infrastructure in ways that work best for different organizations who may have different stages of devops and configuration management objectives in general. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It can be difficult for people from the more "ops" side of the organization, with a more traditional background to adopt and sometimes even see all of the advantages. This improves with exposure to the concepts and product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It supports ruby and yaml which are easy to code and maintain. Licensing and GUI is also user-friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Viewing puppet agent run log in debug mode in the GUI is extremely tedious to scroll through. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I came from a development background when I went in to operations. I found the way of working in operations to be lacking with regards to version management and staging, which to me are the main things Puppet brings to ops. There are several other tools that do the same, but the community participation for Puppet is excellent and Puppet has a pretty decent presence on the Windows platform. So for me there hasn't been a need to look any further. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Puppet is pretty much geared towards legacy infrastructure, which for me is anything that isn't cloud native. For the forseeable future we're stuck with that and a tool like Puppet, to me, is indispensable. But I'd rather be making a greater push towards cloud native. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Being able to manage thousands of servers across multiple datacenters is a hard task, but getting all ours servers into a managed rebuildable state has been infinitely easier with Puppet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Puppet Enterprise is very resource heavy. Hiera is management is still a mess. Module management in difficult across a large organization, even with things like r10k. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Idem potency, and open source community like puppet forge Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As infra grows, the time takes to agents to completes the run also taking time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It enforces states and is extremely reliable for that. It is the means by which we have treated servers as livestock rather than pets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's not easy to learn, and is way more "Dev" than it is "Ops." Not a tool easy for Systems Administrators to adopt, and much of the functionality has been superseded by the (free) ansible, except for the enforcement of states. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Global point of view of your whole infrastructure. Reports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I feel like upgrade path is going too fast. From version 3.8 to 4.x, and from 4.x to 5.x. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like puppet has a ability to manage servers with limited configs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Learning curve is bad...

There is a limit on file size that you can sync with puppet. We have to use rsync to bypass that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.