Foreword

It’s my pleasure to introduce the new, updated version of Pro Puppet. This book has proved popular since it was published in May 2011, and it’s always in demand at conferences and technology events that Puppet Labs attends we routinely run out of copies.

Things have changed a bit since the first edition of Pro Puppet. At that time, Puppet 2.7 had just been released, and shortly after, we launched the very first version of Puppet Enterprise, our commercial product. As I write this introduction, we’re shipping Puppet Enterprise 3.1, and we’re actively planning updates through 4.0.

Back in May 2011, there were about 170 modules in the Puppet Forge; today there are nearly 1,700, many contributed by our large and fast-growing community. Speaking ...

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