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Digital.ai Deploy vs Perforce Puppet comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Digital.ai Deploy
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
Release Automation (11th)
Perforce Puppet
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
5.4
Number of Reviews
14
Ranking in other categories
Configuration Management (14th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Digital.ai Deploy and Perforce Puppet aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Digital.ai Deploy is designed for Release Automation and holds a mindshare of 3.1%, up 1.3% compared to last year.
Perforce Puppet, on the other hand, focuses on Configuration Management, holds 4.2% mindshare, up 1.7% since last year.
Release Automation Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Digital.ai Deploy3.1%
Microsoft Azure DevOps23.9%
GitLab21.4%
Other51.6%
Release Automation
Configuration Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Perforce Puppet4.2%
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform9.5%
HashiCorp Terraform8.1%
Other78.2%
Configuration Management
 

Featured Reviews

Dorian Sezen - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Partner at Kloia
Good solution for heterogeneous enterprise environments that have different workflows
The solution is for heterogeneous enterprise environments that have different workflows like Kubernetes, Linux, Windows, and mainframe The solution creates a manifest file that caps the bridge between the developer and the system admin. The tool needs to improve on cloud-native GitOps. I have…
reviewer2284542 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Development Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Automated configuration management ensures consistent server setups
The strength of Puppet is in automated configuration management. We can configure a server once and set rules with Puppet so that future server configurations are automatic and consistent with company requests. Puppet is declarative, meaning it finds the best state for itself and corrects any deviations in the configuration.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Customer support is excellent, quick response from product specialists."
"For us the flexibility of this product is nice, we can manage several things within one file and by giving parameters to the deployables."
"The product has a flexibility that allows it to work with various deployments and various technologies."
"The main quality is still to have a One Click process, then you save precious time."
"The solution creates a manifest file that caps the bridge between the developer and the system admin."
"The product sounds good thanks to its UI, as it is really easy to perform a deployment when things work."
"We find it to be a very good fit for what we need to accomplish and it's very easy to manage and to maintain it from an enterprise skill perspective, as well."
"It has been a key enabler for us to implement Continuous Delivery and DevOps across the organisation, increasing release frequency by a factor of approximately 10 and reducing re-deployments by a factor of 50."
"Puppet3 and 4 series provides optimum deployment solutions for infrastructure and applications."
"The most valuable features are the agent, high load balancing, and overall robustness and features."
"Puppet Enterprise has reduced the time of production changes or environment changes, freeing our engineers to spend their time on creative, visionary work instead of repetitive tasks."
"The agent-based feature helps me by being stable."
"Puppet Enterprise has good functionalities."
"Anything that we manage through Puppet always runs perfectly."
"The versatility is great."
"The valuable features I found are installing packages remotely and pushing files from a centralized server, and we can also create users and monitor services remotely."
 

Cons

"The GUI deserves some improvements."
"The solution currently has a bug that causes performance issues. They need to resolve this in a future release."
"The basic design is broken, as it computes diffs to perform updates."
"I’d like better reporting possibilities."
"Customer Service: 3/10. Technical Support: 3/10."
"Some deployables have to be built, it is not quite difficult but not every product is supported by one standard."
"Documentation / initial setup / learning curve."
"GUI: uses Adobe Flash which is a bit of a pain (Soon to be replaced by a new GUI with HTML5 and AngularJS)."
"It needs GUI based automation. There is way too much command line work involved."
"It's a bit of a pain point to make sure that everything works once we've upgraded it because Puppet has been evolving pretty fast."
"Puppet has a steep learning curve so you need to spend some time before you can use Puppet daily."
"There's a lot of scope for enhancement on the DevSecOps side. They should definitely include features for compliance, for both the Linux and Windows side of the devices, as well as for network devices. Compliance is something they need to work on."
"Puppet Enterprise is more complex and difficult to configure."
"At the beginning the initial setup was kind of complex."
"Puppet Enterprise should improve the general extensibility for places where they can't install it."
"We would like Puppet to add more integration for applications."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product’s pricing is acceptable. We get volume discounts."
"Pricing costs are based on annual subscriptions."
"Puppet Enterprise can be an expensive solution for smaller businesses."
"Puppet Enterprise’s pricing is competitive."
"Depending on the size of the organization there is a point when the price of Puppet Enterprise should be lower. However, they provide really good functionality, features, and capabilities."
"The main thing that we noticed when we switched from the enterprise version to the community version was the difference in cost — the infrastructure is pretty expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
16%
Construction Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Comms Service Provider
11%
Outsourcing Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise2
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business10
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise5
 

Questions from the Community

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Puppet Enterprise?
Regarding the cost, I find it expensive, always. I don't know how much the license would cost per year or per user approximately.
What needs improvement with Puppet Enterprise?
I don't know what could be improved in Perforce Puppet to make this tool better for the next release. I can't think of anything for now, except maybe the price, which I consider high at 50%.
What is your primary use case for Puppet Enterprise?
My main use case for Perforce Puppet is for configuration management.
 

Also Known As

Deployit, XLDeploy, XebiaLabs XL Deploy
Puppet
 

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