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Puppet Labs vs Rundeck: What are the differences?

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This Markdown code provides a comparison between Puppet Labs and Rundeck, highlighting their key differences.

  1. Deployment Automation: Puppet Labs focuses on infrastructure as code and automates the deployment and management of software and configurations, enabling continuous delivery. On the other hand, Rundeck primarily focuses on job scheduling and execution across various servers and systems, streamlining operational tasks and enhancing productivity.

  2. Configuration Language: Puppet Labs uses a declarative configuration language known as Puppet language, which allows defining desired states and lets the Puppet agent apply the necessary configurations to achieve those states. In contrast, Rundeck uses a procedural configuration language that enables executing specific commands and scripts to perform tasks.

  3. Orchestration Capabilities: Puppet Labs offers limited orchestration capabilities that mainly revolve around managing infrastructure and configurations. Rundeck, on the other hand, provides extensive orchestration features, allowing users to define complex workflows, parallel execution, and handle dependencies between jobs.

  4. Scalability and Performance: Puppet Labs is designed to handle large-scale infrastructures with hundreds or thousands of nodes, providing high scalability and performance. Rundeck, although it can handle large environments, is more suitable for smaller to medium-sized infrastructures due to some limitations in performance and scalability.

  5. User Interface: Puppet Labs provides a web-based user interface, Puppet Enterprise Console, which offers a graphical representation of infrastructure and configurations. Rundeck also offers a web-based user interface that focuses on job scheduling and execution, providing a clean and intuitive user experience.

  6. Integration and Extensibility: Puppet Labs has a rich ecosystem with a wide range of integrations and modules available for managing various technologies and systems. Rundeck also has a plugin system that allows extending its capabilities and integrating with external tools, but it may have a more limited selection of integrations compared to Puppet Labs.

In summary, Puppet Labs excels in infrastructure automation and configuration management, while Rundeck specializes in job scheduling, execution, and orchestration workflows, with a more procedural approach.

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I'm just getting started using Vagrant to help automate setting up local VMs to set up a Kubernetes cluster (development and experimentation only). (Yes, I do know about minikube)

I'm looking for a tool to help install software packages, setup users, etc..., on these VMs. I'm also fairly new to Ansible, Chef, and Puppet. What's a good one to start with to learn? I might decide to try all 3 at some point for my own curiosity.

The most important factors for me are simplicity, ease of use, shortest learning curve.

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I have been working with Puppet and Ansible. The reason why I prefer ansible is the distribution of it. Ansible is more lightweight and therefore more popular. This leads to situations, where you can get fully packaged applications for ansible (e.g. confluent) supported by the vendor, but only incomplete packages for Puppet.

The only advantage I would see with Puppet if someone wants to use Foreman. This is still better supported with Puppet.

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If you are just starting out, might as well learn Kubernetes There's a lot of tools that come with Kube that make it easier to use and most importantly: you become cloud-agnostic. We use Ansible because it's a lot simpler than Chef or Puppet and if you use Docker Compose for your deployments you can re-use them with Kubernetes later when you migrate

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    Devops
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    Automate it
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    Reusable components
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    Dynamic and idempotent server configuration
  • 18
    Great community
  • 12
    Very scalable
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    Cloud management
  • 10
    Easy to maintain
  • 9
    Free tier
  • 6
    Works with Amazon EC2
  • 4
    Declarative
  • 4
    Ruby
  • 3
    Works with Azure
  • 3
    Works with OpenStack
  • 2
    Nginx
  • 1
    Ease of use
  • 3
    Role based access control
  • 3
    Easy to understand
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    Doesn't need containers

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    Steep learning curve
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    Customs types idempotence
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    What is Puppet Labs?

    Puppet is an automated administrative engine for your Linux, Unix, and Windows systems and performs administrative tasks (such as adding users, installing packages, and updating server configurations) based on a centralized specification.

    What is Rundeck?

    A self-service operations platform used for support tasks, enterprise job scheduling, deployment, and more.

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