We’re pleased to announce the availability of Puppet Enterprise in Oracle Cloud Marketplace for customers who want to manage compute infrastructure within their Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) tenancy, on-premises, or multicloud environments.
Set up as a client-server architecture, Puppet Enterprise facilitates the migration of infrastructure from on-premises to the cloud. Puppet Enterprise also lets you automate the entire lifecycle of your OCI and on-premises infrastructure with simplicity, scalability, and security, from the initial provisioning through application deployment.
Puppet complements Resource Manager and Terraform. Customers can now reuse the automation that they built in Puppet and add Terraform where appropriate, all supported in OCI. Provisioning new systems, quickly deploying critical applications, and ensuring your infrastructure is secure and compliant are just a few of the features available in the Puppet Enterprise listing in OCI Marketplace.
IT management
Puppet Enterprise takes configuration management to the next level by making scaling and maintaining your infrastructure even easier with preloaded tasks and plans, metrics collection, and managing nodes, all automated. Paired with the community-supported Puppet Forge, which offers modules for OCI and other Oracle apps, Puppet Enterprise can help enhance your experience with Oracle Cloud and leave you with more free time to work on what’s important.
Use cases
Puppet assists with the following use cases on OCI:
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Migrations and hybrid cloud: You can replatform an on-premises node to the cloud with Puppet Enterprise, without needing to rearchitect around a new automation solution. An existing Puppet user can easily add cloud nodes and manage them in the same way as their on-premises ones. New customers can take advantage of Puppet’s platform-agnostic installation documentation and best practices, helping you get started quickly. Whether you’re looking to migrate to the cloud completely or keep a hybrid network of nodes, Puppet Enterprise can help keep your fleet managed quickly and securely.
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Automate your DevOps lifecycle: The 2021 State of DevOps Report told us that highly evolved organizations use the cloud better and are far more likely to have implemented extensive and pervasive automation. Whether you’re strictly using Oracle Cloud to operate your DevOps lifecycle or maintain a hybrid environment, Puppet can help you automate your tasks while keeping you secure and compliant.
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Audit reports and asset management: Enterprise businesses and IT organizations face an ever-increasing need to provide a secure and compliant environment. Using an Infrastructure-as-code framework with Puppet as a deployment mechanism enables businesses to simplify infrastructure updates, easily generate audit reports with details that meet auditor expectations, and reduce failed audits and financial risk.
Getting started
Deploying Puppet Enterprise into your OCI tenancy is easy from the Oracle Cloud Marketplace. You can bring your own licenses to OCI and deploy Puppet Enterprise using the Marketplace listing. For instructions on how to deploy the image, see our Cloud PE services Marketplace image user guide.
To make it easy to get started, the image comes with Puppet preinstalled and is configured while booting your instance. The image also includes scripts to automate common tasks and configure PE to manage your nodes wherever they live, whether bare metal, offsite data centers, OCI Compute, or other cloud providers.
Not sure if Puppet Enterprise is right for you? You can try it with up to 10 connected nodes for free! Simply get the Puppet Enterprise app from the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Marketplace. When you’re ready for the full experience, contact Puppet sales about getting a license.