What is Puppet Enterprise?

A common misconception when discussing Puppet Enterprise is that features of the product are held back and not available for open source users. The aim of Puppet Enterprise isn’t to limit what is available to open source users but to instead provide value to customers who want to consume Puppet easily and focus on gaining the value of configuration management by putting less of their own development and automation work into the platform itself.

Puppet achieves this by ensuring that in Enterprise, the packing of components is versioned and tested together with an automated installation script and module, reducing the effort required by users managing the infrastructure. Puppet Enterprise works on two different types of releases. Puppet Enterprise, which works on an xxxx.y pattern, is normally updated every 3 months, which at the time of writing would be 2023.0. This version is planned to upgrade to Puppet 8.x versions in 2023.3 and will receive new...