A Peek Behind the Curtain at Puppet Labs | Linux Today

A Peek Behind the Curtain at Puppet Labs

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 20, 2012

“In this interview, Luke Kanies, CEO and founder of Puppet Labs,
explains why the Puppet configuration management tool is a huge hit
with sys admins, and tells us what to expect next from the popular
open source project…

Luke Kanies: Primarily, it’s that people who use Puppet love
Puppet. The 4,000 people on our mailing list, 500 IRC members, and
hundreds of customers don’t just use the software to make their
lives better; they actually like using it. I’ve been consistently
surprised by how many people seem to be emotionally fond of Puppet,
and I get thanked all the time by people for just helping them by
having created Puppet.


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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