It’s been quite a journey, y’all.But we’re excited to announce the first release of OpenVox, the community-maintained open source implementation of Puppet.OpenVox 8.11 is functionally equivalent to...
As someone that has never used Puppet, I also wonder this. Ansible is agentless and works on basically anything. What do you gain by requiring an agent, like with this?
A long lost host (a machine that’s been offline or in a closed off network etc.) can find its master (puppetserver) when it sees the daylight again with the regularily polling puppet agent service. This is not as straightforward with ansible’s push model.
Why not just use Ansible?
As someone that has never used Puppet, I also wonder this. Ansible is agentless and works on basically anything. What do you gain by requiring an agent, like with this?
A long lost host (a machine that’s been offline or in a closed off network etc.) can find its master (puppetserver) when it sees the daylight again with the regularily polling puppet agent service. This is not as straightforward with ansible’s push model.