After years as an operational system administrator, followed by years as a system automation consultant, Luke Kanies became frustrated with all the available tools for managing systems. With CFEngine expertise, a stint at BladeLogic and vision that there has to be a better way, Luke founded Reductive Labs with the conviction that his ideas could compete on merit. Puppet is the functional manifestation of that conviction.
Puppet is released as Open Source software and has attracted a thriving user community. Puppet is already a very flexible scalable solution managing thousands of systems, and with the community’s help, Puppet is getting better every day.
Reductive Labs provides training, service and support to the Puppet community.
Because Scaling isn’t just ‘More’
Keeping a handful of servers running is essentially straightforward, but even with discipline and infrastructure, as the number of machines goes up the amount of time spent maintaining them scales almost linearly. Traditional automation techniques, like automated installers and scripts using ssh in a loop, reduce that maintenance overhead, but hand-rolled mechanisms for managing large networks often become their own maintenance problem.
Puppet can manage…