What does it do?
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Looks like it's a fork of Puppet.
A software to orchestrated and manage software installations and configurations on multiple/many systems using one central system. Puppet is a great tool for medium/large scale system administration and this is a open source implementation of that.
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I'm gonna be so real, that's a lot of words that I didn't understand but that's okay- I suppose I'm probably not the target audience for for the software 😂
Best of luck to you and your project!
So wait... Did Puppet have a license change as well recently? Is this just preemptive because it looks like Perforce is starting to change things?
Why not just use Ansible?
As someone that has never used Puppet, I also wonder this. Ansible is agentless and works on basically anything. What do you gain by requiring an agent, like with this?
A long lost host (a machine that's been offline or in a closed off network etc.) can find its master (puppetserver) when it sees the daylight again with the regularily polling puppet agent service. This is not as straightforward with ansible's push model.
I don't frequent that world much these days, but I personally preferred the agent/pull model when I did. I can't really articulate why, I think I feel comfortable knowing that the agent will run with the last known config on the machine, potentially correcting any misconfiguration even if the central host is down.
The big debate back in the day was Puppet vs. Chef (before Ansible/SaltStack). Puppet was more declarative, Chef more imperative.
I also admit, I don't like YAML, other than for simple, mostly flat config and serializing.
I further admit that Ansible just has a bigger community these days, and that's worth something. When I need to do a bit of CM these days, I use Ansible.