What is Puppet used for

Question

What is Puppet and why exactly do we need it?

Answer 1

Puppet is one of the most widely used configuration management tools. It is used for deploying , configuring and managing servers.

It is used for:

• Define configurations for every slave machines
• It performs search on all the slaves it manages, continuously checking and confirming whether the required configuration is in place on the hosts.
• Provides control of all the slave machines it manages using master-slave architecture.