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Is Puppet actually "winning" the DevOps battle for server deployment? Just curious as I was under the impression that both Chef and Puppet were top-tier, and yo

• sliverstorm 15y ago
  People certainly blab about Puppet more. (Which suggest to me Chef is the one "winning". It is being used by the people who don't have the time to argue about which is better.)
  • simpleloss 15y ago
    It's true that Puppet Labs is doing some serious marketing with their enterprise stuff. I do think their product is better. I have used both.
  • scottm01 15y ago
    Puppetlabs has certainly stepped up their marketing; 6-8 months ago you could have flipped the words puppet and chef in your post and it would have been completely true. I'd argue puppet is winning any time there are operations staff, chef is winning when pure developers are also doing operations. Either is fine and both are leaps and bounds ahead of the competition (which is generally "no configuration management" or "a hodge-podge of homegrown scripts").