Re:Ask HN: How do people feel about Puppet?
by giobox on Sunday May 23, 2021 @10:51AM
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You’ve answered your own question really! Technologies like containers where configurations and so on should be immutable removes a lot of the need for tools like Puppet/Chef, so much so that I’d argue an app needing a complex puppet/chef/anisble/whatever stack to deploy can sometimes be a code smell sign now.
That said, I’m sure there is going to be lots of customers such as in enterprise with badly written complex old apps that are a nightmare to deploy looking to use puppet and similar for a while yet.
My own experience is Ansible has typically had a shorter learning curve for developers than chef or puppet, but I last used puppet in 2014ish. Puppet, Chef especially, both in my opinion require you to become expert in chef and puppet too much to use well.
That said, I’m sure there is going to be lots of customers such as in enterprise with badly written complex old apps that are a nightmare to deploy looking to use puppet and similar for a while yet.
My own experience is Ansible has typically had a shorter learning curve for developers than chef or puppet, but I last used puppet in 2014ish. Puppet, Chef especially, both in my opinion require you to become expert in chef and puppet too much to use well.