Puppet Labs has released version 3.7 of its Puppet Enterprise. Puppet Enterprise is a Configuration Management platform using a model based, declarative approach build on top of Puppet which is an open source IT automation solution. Puppet Enterprise is a suite of products combining Puppet , a web console, provisioning tools and support.
The Puppet Enterprise version 3.7 software bundle consists of the following tools:
- Puppet 3.7.1
- PuppetDB 2.2.1
- Facter 2.2.0
- MCollective 2.6.0
- Hiera 1.3.4
- Dashboard 2.1.6
New functionality provided in version 3. 7, as detailed in the release notes:
- Puppet server, built on JVM stack to replace Apache/Passenger Puppet master stack
- Ability to add additional Puppet masters to large deployments
- Rules-based node classifier, a new way to organize and configure nodes
- Role Based Access Control
- Ability to add additional ActiveMQ hubs and spokes
- Full support for directory environments
- Support script improvements
- SLES 10 Agent Support
- Security Fixes