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Developer(s) | Puppet |
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Initial release | 2005 |
Stable release | 8.5.1
/ 4 March 2024 |
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Written in | C++ & Clojure from 4.0,[1] Ruby |
Operating system | Linux, Unix-like, Microsoft Windows |
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License | Open Source Puppet: Apache for >2.7.0, GPL for prior versions. Puppet Enterprise: proprietary[2] |
Website | puppet |
Puppet is a software configuration management tool developed by Puppet Inc.[3] Puppet is used to manage stages of the IT infrastructure lifecycle.[4]
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,[5] 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 has Microsoft Windows support.[6][7] Puppet itself is written in Ruby, Facter, Puppet’s cross-platform system profiling library, is written in C++, and Puppet Server and Puppet DB are written in Clojure.[8]