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openvox August 5, 2026

How to leave Puppet Enterprise without leaving Puppet

Puppet Enterprise migration is not a religious war. It is a bill, a console, and a compiler farm. OpenVox is the community continuation of Puppet open-source. If your modules, Hiera, and r10k control …

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openvox February 1, 2025

Getting Started with OpenVox: The Community Fork of Puppet

In January 2025, the Puppet open-source community launched OpenVox — a community-driven fork of Puppet designed to ensure the future of open-source configuration management remains in the hands of i…

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puppet October 31, 2024

Puppet Primer series (questy.org)

The Puppet Primer is a long-form teaching series published on questy.org. It is written for practitioners who want the language, not a vendor slide.Read in orderPuppet Primer I — What is Puppet? Pup…

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consulting June 15, 2024

Configuration Management as a Service (CMaaS)

Not every organization has the in-house expertise — or the desire — to manage their own configuration management infrastructure. That's where Configuration Management as a Service comes in.Wh…

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puppet May 12, 2020

Scaling Puppet Community to Thousands of Nodes

Not everyone runs Puppet Enterprise. The open-source Puppet Community edition is a powerful platform in its own right, and with the right architecture, it can scale to manage thousands of nodes reliab…

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puppet April 18, 2017

Scaling Puppet Enterprise — Part II: Installation

In this installment, we'll walk through the Puppet Enterprise split installation process using the GUI installer.PrerequisitesBefore you begin, ensure you have: At least 3 nodes provisioned for y…

puppet enterprise installation
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puppet April 17, 2017

Scaling Puppet Enterprise — Introduction

Over the years of consulting with Puppet, I've had the pleasure of seeing quite a number of different configurations and setups from multiple clients. I've seen small environments, large env…

puppet enterprise scaling
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