What is the Puppet configuration management tool, and how does it work?
| What is the Puppet configuration management tool, and how does it work?
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Puppet is an open source IT automation tool that allows organizations to encode the configuration of services as a policy, which the framework then audits and enforces. At first glance, a battle-hardened system administrator might dismiss a new configuration management tool as unnecessary. She can do the same thing with machine images and some shell scripts. This is equivalent to a lumberjack who has just heard about chainsaws and doesn’t see why anyone would ever want more than an ax. Puppet was first released in 2005, and it now manages systems at Google, Twitter, Red Hat, Digg, and Harvard and Stanford universities. IT operations from the enterprise to Web 2.0 startups use the tool to get more work done. These organizations have recognized that Secure Shell in a loop is not a solution. ITSM basics: Implementing change management processes
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