What is Puppet?

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Posted On: Feb 22, 2018

 

Puppet is a tool for managing configuration and is broadly used for the purpose of automation of the administrative tasks. The tool Puppet aids the server in deployment, managing and in the configuration. A request is sent to Puppet Master, which is also referred to as Server, by the Puppet Agent which it is also referred to as Client. And then the Server ( Puppet Master ) push the configuration on the client. It can be run on Windows and is also capable of running on a system like UNIX. Puppet has a good range of scalability which is very beneficial for administrative tasks.

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