We performed a comparison between Puppet Enterprise and Red Hat Satellite based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Red Hat, Microsoft, HCLTech and others in Configuration Management."The best feature is that we don't need to worry about downtime. We don't need to worry about the network connections of our office or the virtual private network. Everything is being done through the internet. Using Intune Autopilot, we can configure and deploy everything to the devices."
"It is helpful for managing devices anytime and any place without requiring dependency on the local networks."
"It is a very stable and scalable cloud-only solution."
"Stable solution at a good price."
"The most valuable feature of Intune is the central dashboard for compliance and policy management."
"The ability to send configurations to our systems is valuable, particularly as we don't have a regular Windows AD server. Our current environment doesn't have a Windows AD, which limits our ability to push GPOs. However, this is where the solution can step in and help us push policies."
"Autopilot is a great feature. Most users are looking for a zero-touch deployment."
"In terms of technical support, you will get an immediate response."
"Anything that we manage through Puppet always runs perfectly."
"The main purpose for this automation tool would be: deploying, controlling, ordering change for the system and IT Infrastructure."
"Puppet Enterprise has good functionalities."
"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."
"The versatility is great."
"Puppet Enterprise is a stable solution."
"Puppet3 and 4 series provides optimum deployment solutions for infrastructure and applications."
"It cuts down significantly on the administrative time it takes to patch systems in a large environment."
"We've been getting reasonable support from Red Hat."
"The most valuable feature is the management of the distributed tool we use in the Red Hat Linux Servers."
"The product allows us to handle patching for multiple servers at a time manually."
"You don't need to depend on any third party. It's a complete solution for patch and configuration management when integrated with the existing system."
"The compliance auditing helped me a lot."
"The most valuable feature is the fact that you don't have to expose your mission-critical environment to the Internet. With the Satellite system in place, it acts as a barrier between your Red Hat infrastructure and the public Internet."
"It plays a significant role in managing the lifecycle of our systems and ensures that we can effectively control and update the software versions to align with our organization's needs."
"It's only good for a Microsoft environment."
"Microsoft Intune lags market leaders, such as Apperian, in its MAM capabilities."
"The backend of Microsoft Intune needs to be improved. We have seen a little bit of delay as compared to other MDM solutions. That needs to be improved. A little bit more granularity should also be added"
"In future releases, I would like to see better integration with Apple products."
"It should be simplified. I've worked with many different mobile device management solutions, and Intune is one of the more complex ones. It could be more simplified, and some of it is related to the wording that is being used, such as a configuration profile versus a policy. They really should have had different names to make it less confusing."
"The policies we had in SCCM and AD offered features that are missing from Microsoft Intune."
"An area for improvement is the absence of seamless integration, particularly with external dashboards."
"Intune's reporting and logging could be improved. When troubleshooting, it's difficult to collect the logs and determine what's happening. If I want to filter out the compliant devices, I can see it from the logs, but I would like the option to drill down further."
"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."
"We would like Puppet to add more integration for applications."
"Puppet Enterprise should improve the general extensibility for places where they can't install it."
"The solution has really complex code, you have to understand the Ruby language. However, once you know the code then you can move ahead without any problems."
"Puppet Enterprise is more complex and difficult to configure."
"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."
"At the beginning the initial setup was kind of complex."
"The solution's initial setup is a little bit tricky."
"Automation can always be improved and refined to continue to make it better."
"The product could have more diversity in what it is able to deploy and might do better if it was not dedicated to Red Hat products only."
"Satellite should be bundled with Ansible Tower and the Ansible Automation platform. We face challenges from a security perspective because we have micro-segmentation in our network. For each server we provision, we have to set permissions to different ports so that the servers can communicate with Satellite. If I have a single server with Satellite and the Ansible Automation Platform, it would be easier to manage security issues instead of having two or three products on various servers."
"The dashboard of Satellite is not encouraging. It does not adequately showcase all the functionality it offers."
"Red Hat Satellite's pricing needs improvement."
"Improving integration could lead to a more unified management experience for multiple operating systems within our data center."
"I would rate the pricing a seven out of ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive. The licensing is a bit expensive."
Puppet Enterprise doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Configuration Management with 12 reviews while Red Hat Satellite is ranked 4th in Configuration Management with 21 reviews. Puppet Enterprise is rated 8.2, while Red Hat Satellite is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Puppet Enterprise writes "A set-it-and-forget-it management solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Red Hat Satellite writes "A good product for managing patches and updates that could be more robust and up-to-date". Puppet Enterprise is most compared with AWS Systems Manager, Microsoft Configuration Manager, BigFix, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Chef, whereas Red Hat Satellite is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, SUSE Manager, Microsoft Configuration Manager, AWS Systems Manager and Chef.
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