Is Puppet free to use?
Open source Puppet is free for use and open to modification and customization. You get a comprehensive tool with core CM capabilities and functionality out-of-the-box, and—if you possess the skill set— can be tweaked and improved upon directly through modifying its source code directly.
Who bought Puppet?
Red Hat acquires Puppet Labs rival for reported $100M to bolster its DevOps chops. Red Hat Inc. added another vital piece to its hybrid cloud puzzle this morning after announcing the acquisition of Ansible Inc., one of the biggest names in open-source infrastructure automation, for a reported $100 million.
Where is the puppet location?
Puppet is headquartered in Portland, OR and has 7 office locations across 6 countries.
What is the puppet agent?
Puppet agent is a software application, provided by Puppet labs, which runs on any node in Puppet cluster. If one wants to manage any server using the Puppet master, the Puppet agent software needs to be installed on that particular server.