We performed a comparison between Puppet Enterprise and SaltStack based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Red Hat, Quest Software and others in Configuration Management."The most valuable features are the agent, high load balancing, and overall robustness and features."
"Anything that we manage through Puppet always runs perfectly."
"The automation functionality has been most valuable. With a click of a button, we are able to automate provisioning, the build of new hardware and apply patches. These are all extremely important and differentiated tasks that can be automated in SaltStack."
"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."
"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."
"This solution could be integrated with more hardware for an improved offering."
Puppet Enterprise is ranked 9th in Configuration Management with 2 reviews while SaltStack is ranked 15th in Configuration Management with 1 review. Puppet Enterprise is rated 9.0, while SaltStack is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Puppet Enterprise writes "A set-it-and-forget-it management solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SaltStack writes "Orchestration tool that powers automation of processes with the click of a button". Puppet Enterprise is most compared with Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager, AWS Systems Manager, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and BMC TrueSight Server Automation, whereas SaltStack is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager, HashiCorp Terraform and Microsoft Intune.
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