I was an early adopter of Puppet back when it was fairly new. It was a breath of fresh air when the state of the art was cfengine! Despite its many great ideas

I was an early adopter of Puppet back when it was fairly new. It was a breath of fresh air when the state of the art was cfengine! Despite its many great ideas, I never particularly liked the agent or need for a master server. And I've always managed to avoid learning Ruby so I couldn't easily hack on it myself. The company I'm with now uses it extensively so I'm having to re-learn it and so far my impression is that it went from "cool new open source thing" to "your average enterprise-grade bloatware thing".