Need Vendor-backed Assurance for Compliance?
Puppet Core extends Open Source Puppet with vendor-tested builds, SLAs for high- and critical-severity CVEs, and defect support. It’s ideal for organizations that need predictable security updates and a supported foundation for regulated or mission-critical environments.
Automate Your Infrastructure Configuration
Open Source Puppet is a freely available open source configuration management solution that enables you to automate using infrastructure as code. You define desired system states (like user accounts and security settings) and Open Source Puppet will ensure your infrastructure conforms to that standard, saving you time and manual configuration effort.
- Discover infrastructure resources within minutes.
- Remediate configuration drift in cloud, hybrid, or on-prem deployments.
- Configure a range of setups across Windows and Linux environments.
- Drive innovation by customizing and experimenting with Puppet code.
FAQs About Open Source Puppet
Open Source Puppet is a community-driven automation framework that gives teams full control over how they build, test, and maintain their Puppet environment. It provides flexibility, but places responsibility for security patching, testing, and long-term maintenance on the user.
Puppet Core is built on the same open source foundation and delivered as vendor-tested, certified builds. A commercial license adds guaranteed SLAs for high- and critical-severity CVEs, defect support, and Security Compliance Enforcement content maintained by Puppet, giving organizations greater confidence running Puppet in regulated or production environments.
Open Source Puppet is well suited for teams that want full control and are comfortable building and maintaining their own automation workflows in non-regulated environments.
Puppet Enterprise Advanced is designed for organizations operating where governance, security, and operational resilience are critical. You should consider Puppet Enterprise Advanced for:
- Enterprise wide control and accountability
- Always ready audit evidence at scale
- Continuous compliance and reduced operational risk
- Intelligent features and advanced integrations
For deeper technical detail and use cases comparing Open Source Puppet to other Puppet editions, download the Decision Maker’s Guide to Puppet for free at the link below.
Yes. Puppet Core is built on the same foundation as Open Source Puppet, so existing manifests, modules, and workflows remain compatible. This allows teams to move to Puppet Core without rearchitecting their automation or starting over.
Open Source Puppet users can use Bolt for agentless task execution on servers and devices that do not support a Puppet agent. This enables basic, ad hoc automation without installing agents.
Puppet Edge goes beyond Bolt by adding licensed capabilities, curated content, and governance designed to extend Puppet automation to network and edge infrastructure at scale. Puppet Edge requires a commercial Puppet Core or Puppet Enterprise platform license and is not available with Open Source Puppet alone.
No. Formal training is not offered with Open Source Puppet. For training, consider a Puppet Core commercial license which comes with a training engagement delivered by certified Puppet experts.
The Puppet Forge offers a massive library of over 7,000 pre-built modules crafted by Puppet, trusted partners, and the talented Puppet community. The Puppet Forge empowers you with step-by-step guides and tutorials, regardless of your Puppet experience.
Our Puppet Community Slack connects you with other Open Source Puppet users who can help answer questions and provide support.