Defusing the server management explosion

Overview

For IT organizations, server proliferation is a spiraling challenge,
as manually driven administration practices result in myriad machine configurations. Compliance adds another layer of complexity to server administration, as IT organizations
struggle to meet a growing amount of internal standards, security standards and legal directives.

This whitepaper articulates why Puppet is a superior choice compared to today’s most
common alternatives for server management – internally developed tools and large
management suites – and how Puppet can help IT organizations achieve significant
economies of scale in server management,