Puppet

# Organizations using Puppet

This page is a listing of organizations and people currently using

Puppet.

Please feel free to add yourself to this listing.

In no specific order...

-   **[M:tier Ltd.](http://www.mtier.org/)**

    -  Country : United Kingdom

    -  We set up and maintain several 100% OpenBSD-based infrastructures

       (going from the entry site firewall to the secretary's workstation)

       and use puppet to manage these installations ([more](http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20110420080633)).

    -  Contact: ajacoutot[AT]mtier[DOT]org

-   **[Luma Pictures, Inc.](http://www.luma-pictures.com)**

    -  Country : United States of America

    -  Enjoying a puppet and mcollective implementation, enabling us to better secure our systems' uniformity and manageability.

    -  Contact: tech@luma-pictures.com

-   **[Netlog.com](http://www.netlog.com)**

    -  Country : Belgium

    -  We recently re-engineered our complete infrastructure to be completely managed by puppet.

    -  The integration with our own asset-management tools was very easy, and the migration of our serverpark was completed in only 2 months.

    -  There are more then 1700 servers completely managed by puppet.

    -  Our research in cloud technologies are also backed by puppet, we're currently successfully experimenting with Amazon EC2 integration.

    -  All our 60 million users get served by puppet backed systems

    -  Contact: Nicolas Van Eenaeme

-   **[ZoNIX Systems](http://www.zonixsystems.com/)**

    -   Country : India

    -   Our remote Linux support services to over 50 clients is being

        delivered using Puppet. It helps us providing cost effective

        managed services with automated reports on configuration changes to

        our clients.

    -   Contact : info AT ZoNIXSystems DOT com

-   **[XMOS Ltd](http://www.xmos.com/)**

    -   Country : UK

    -   We manage our internal and some external web-server machines using Puppet.

        Centralised, versioned configs with automatic generation via exported 

        resources save a lot of time and effort keeping things consistent.

        It's nice to know that if a machine falls out of a window we can have an 

        identical config up and running in two shakes of a rabbit's tail!

    -   Contact : daveg (at) xmos dot com

-   **[Ubity inc.](http://www.ubity.com/)**

    -   Country : Canada

    -   We manage all our Linux servers using puppet. It enables us to

        manage our security policies efficiently and maintain similar

        servers with similar configs.

    -   Contact : Ubity

-   **[Olark.com - Live Help](http://www.olark.com/)**

    -   Country : USA

    -   We manage the configuration of all of our Ubuntu servers using

        Puppet. Puppet makes managing a cloud of servers as simple as

        editing configuration files in one directory. With a Git

        post-update hook our system admins can adjust configuration without

        logging into a single machine. Puppet lets our small team focus on

        our product, not on operations.

    -   Contact : Olark

-   **[Probability Games Corporation](http://www.probability.co.uk/)**

    -   Country: UK

    -   We manage all our internal servers using puppet to ensure ease

        of deployment and peace of mind in knowing that the configuration

        is consistent.

    -   Contact: marcus (at) probability dot co dot uk

-   **[Basis ehf](http://www.basis.is/)**

    -   Country: Iceland

    -   We manage most of our linux systems with puppet. It helps us to

        maintain configuration standards and saves us from a lot of

        repetition. It was a blessing when it came to PCI certification as

        we were able to solve most of the requirements with Puppet clases

        and we can be sure that any future systems will get the same

        treatment.

    -   Contact: Basis

-   **[Solfo, Inc](http://www.solfo.com/)**

    -   Country: US

    -   We use puppet to manage the system configuration on our servers

        in Los Angeles and Montréal running

        [YellowBot](http://www.yellowbot.com/) and

        [weblocal.ca](http://www.weblocal.ca/). We mostly use CentOS 5.

        With puppet our "sysadmin time" is all spent fixing real problems

        and improving things rather than tedious and error-prone manual

        configuration. One of our favorite parts is that with the cost of

        managing another box being driven almost down to zero we are free

        to use virtualization in however way that's best for our needs.

    -   Contact: Ask Bjørn Hansen

-   **[Gladserv](http://www.gladserv.com/)**

    -   Country: UK

    -   Gladserv uses Puppet to quickly deploy and manage virtual

        servers in our hosting environment.

    -   Contact: Brett Sheffield

-   **[Bitcube Ltd](http://www.bitcube.co.uk/content/puppet-introduction)**

    -   Automated provisioning of Debian, Ubuntu, Redhat and CentOS

        servers. We've very successfully used Puppet to look after 100+

        machines spread across several client sites and to synchronise

        development, pre-production and production environments.

    -   Country: UK

    -   Contact: Bitcube Ltd

-   **[Power Media S.A.](http://www.power.com.pl/)**

    -   Used to administer BSD, Linux, Mac workstations and servers

    -   Country: Poland

    -   Contact: admin at power dot com dot pl

-   **[The Network Event Kit](http://bsd.wifisoft.org/nek)**

    -   Used to administer FreeBSD (firewalls monitoring) NanoBSD wifi

        accespoints

    -   Country: The Netherlands

    -   Contact: Marten marten at wifisoft dot org or mvn071 # puppet

-   **[Strabag SE - BRVZ Gmbh IT](http://www.strabag.com/)**

    -   Used to manage a farm of 40+ Servers (Webservers and

        Infrastructure)

    -   Country: Austria

    -   Contact: Mario Kleinsasser

    -   Contact: Bernhard Rausch

-   **[Avvo](http://www.avvo.com/)**

    -   Used to manage all of our production infrastructure.

    -   Country: USA

    -   Contact: Sendi Widjaja (sendiw on #puppet)

-   **[Slide](http://www.slide.com/)**

    -   Used to manage 300+ production Linux servers.

    -   Country: USA

    -   Contact: Joel Krauska (thecat on #puppet)

-   **[Google](http://www.google.com/)**

    -   Being used to manage all recent Mac OS X and Linux desktops, laptops, servers in the corporate infrastructure.

    -   Not used in production (ie Gmail etc) at all.

    -   Country: Global

-   **[Photoblog](http://www.photoblog.com/)**

    -   Used to keep all our image servers mirrored and up to date.

    -   Country: US

-   Contact: Mike Zupan (jY on #puppet)

-   **[Empowering Media](http://www.empoweringmedia.com/) [HostCube - Managed VPS Hosting Service](http://www.hostcube.com/)**

    -   Used to manage and configure our nodes, customer VPSes and

        creating appliances. We are managing CentOS 3,4 and 5 with i386 and

        x86\_64 instances.

    -   Contact: Larry Ludwig (lludwig on #puppet)

    -   Country: US

-   **[The Ohio State University](http://www.osu.edu/) [Department of Mathematics](http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/)**

    -   Primarily used for: \~200 Mac OS X workstations, \~25 Fedora

        workstations and \~40 Centos servers.

    -   Contact: Dave Alden (alden on #puppet)

-   **[Bitfield Consulting](http://bitfieldconsulting.com/)**

    -   We use Puppet to build automated systems infrastructure for

        clients including [Wordtracker](http://www.wordtracker.com),

        [People's Music Store](http://www.peoplesmusicstore.com),

        [CitySafe](http://www.citysafe.org),

        [Supreme](http://www.supreme.com) and others. Puppet manages web

        applications, email servers, continuous integration, automated

        deployment, access control, firewalls, DNS, web analytics, issue

        tracking, virtual machine builds, SVN and Git repos, databases,

        monitoring servers, Yum servers and RPM build hosts, PHP, Nginx,

        Apache, IRC servers, Jabber, Secure Trading and XPay servers, Drupal,

        wikis, SMS delivery, Amazon EC2 instances, Memcache, Rails and

        anything else that our clients request!

    -   Contact: John Arundel (bitfield on #puppet,

        [@bitfield](http://www.twitter.com/bitfield) on Twitter)

    -   Resources: John is currently writing a series of blog posts

        introducing beginners to Puppet:

        [Puppet Tutorial](http://bitfieldconsulting.com/puppet-tutorial)

    -   Country: UK

-   **[Imperial College London](http://www.imperial.ac.uk/)**

    **[HEP group](http://www.imperial.ac.uk/research/hep/)**

    -   We use puppet to manage our HPC clusters, our desktops and some

        of our servers

    -   Contact: Kostas Georgiou

-   **[Bashton Ltd](http://www.bashton.com/)**

    -   Country: UK

    -   We use Puppet to manage our own cluster of servers, as well as

        creating and supporting configurations for our customers

    -   Contact: noc@… Network Operations

-   **[Fab:IT ApS](http://www.fab-it.eu/)**

    -   We use puppet to administrate our own servers placed in the

        local datacenter, and our customers placed both in the same

        datacenter, and scattered around the country. Puppet is ideal

        because of it's ease of use, and especially because the puppet

        server compiles the configuration specifically for the individual

        host, so that no irrelevant information goes to the wrong nodes.

        Thanks, Luke, for a great tool!

    -   Country: Denmark

    -   Contact: Juri Rischel Jensen

-   **[Geni Inc. (www.geni.com)](http://www.geni.com)**

    -   We use puppet to manage the configurations of all our Linux

        servers. With puppet my server build time is roughly 12-15 minutes

        to get a server ready for production.

    -   Contact: Jadrian Johnson

-   **[Institute of Cognitive Science](http://www.ikw.uni-osnabrueck.de)**

    at the [University of Osnabrueck](http://www.uni-osnabrueck.de),

    Germany

    -   We manage all our Linux/Mac OS X/FreeBSD Workstations and

        Servers with puppet.

    -   We try to manage all services, most of them are.

    -   Being an institute with many projects and different topics and

        needs, there are many different computer configurations around.

        Puppet makes it easy to keep a consistent state. A wonderful tool.

    -   We also write modules and facts, they are made public as soon

        as they work and are documented (hopefully):

        [WebSVN](https://svn.ikw.uos.de/pubwebsvn/listing.php?repname=ikwadmin&path=%2Fpublic%2Fpuppet%2F#_public_puppet_)

        and svn co https://svn.ikw.uos.de/dav/ikwadmin/public/puppet

    -   Contact:

        [Udo Waechter](mailto:admin_AT_ikw_DOT_uni-osnabrueck_DOT_de)

-   **[EDV-Beratung und Service](http://www.edv-bus.at)** a small

    IT-Consultancy in Austria/Germany

    -   Currently migration the existing hosting and firewall customers

        to puppet-managed systems

    -   Public [GIT](http://git.black.co.at/?p=manifests.git;a=summary)

    -   Contact: David Schmitt (DavidS on #puppet)

-   **[Arces Network, LLC](http://www.arces.net)**

    -   Arces Network uses Puppet for configuration management on our

        servers and the servers we manage for our customers in the US and

        EU.

    -   Contact: [Adrian Goins](mailto:agoins_AT_arces_DOT_net)

-   **[Fedora Project](http://fedoraproject.org/)** A leading Linux

    distribution

    -   Used for all of Fedora's Infrastructure by the infrastructure

        team.

    -   Contact: #fedora-admin on freenode.net

-   **[Mozilla](http://www.mozilla.com)**

    -   Used to manage all Linux and Mac continuous integration infrastructure.

    -   Used to manage some IT systems.

    -    Contact: #build on irc.mozilla.org

-   **[Stanford University](http://www.stanford.edu/dept/its)**

    -   Used to manage Linux servers (Red Hat, Debian) maintained by

        the central IT department (ITS) for both core services as well as a

        dozen external departments. With a wide diversity of models in use,

        we're employing over 700 classes in nearly 100 modules.

    -   Contact: Digant C Kasundra

-   **[Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory](http://www.cshl.edu/)**

    -   Used to manage provisioning and configuration of a highly

        heterogeneous network of Linux application and computation servers

        in a distributed research-centric environment.

    -   Contact: Jeffrey Goldschrafe

-   **[Camptocamp SA](http://www.camptocamp.com/)**

    -   Used to manage internal and customer infrastructures, Modules

        available at

        [http://github.com/camptocamp](http://github.com/camptocamp)

    -   Country: Switzerland

    -   Contact:

        [Sysadmin Team](mailto:sysadmin_AT_camptocamp_DOT_com)

-   **[California State University, Bakersfield](http://www.csub.edu/)**

    -   Contact: Network Operations

-   **[Ingent Network](http://www.ingent.net/)**

    -   Used to manage a distributed network of Linux servers.

    -   Contact: [David Escala](mailto:info_AT_ingent.net) (descala on #puppet)

-   **[Rice College Westport](http://www.ricecollegewestport.ie)**

    -   Manage a couple of OS X file servers and all Mac desktops.

        Around 30 machines in total.

    -   Country: Ireland

    -   Contact: Michael Hodges

-   **[Kennards Hire](http://www.kennards.com.au/)**

    -   Kennards Hire use Puppet to manage servers at branches all

        across Australia.

    -   Contact: Lindsay Holmwood

-   **[ClayValet](http://clayvalet.com/)**

    -   Used to manage all production services.

    -   Contact: Mikhail Seregine

-   **[University of California, Riverside](http://www.ucr.edu/)**

    -   We're in the process of rolling Puppet out to all Solaris

        infrastructure systems managed by the Computing and Communications

        department. Eventually all FreeBSD, Linux, and MacOS X systems

        managed by CIS will be incorporated into the tool. Longer term

        campus labs and department machines might fall under the umbrella

        of the tool.

    -   Contact: CIS Group

-   **[Wesabe](http://www.wesabe.com)**

    -   Contact: sq@…

-   **[Hyves.nl](http://www.hyves.nl)**

    -   Country: NL

    -   We use puppet to manage 99% of our serverpark of 3000 servers

        running Gentoo, the missing 1% is just a matter of time :-)

    -   Contact: System Engineering Hyves or Ramonster / f--z /

        MarlonDb on IRC

-   **[Lookout, Inc. ](https://www.mylookout.com/)**

    -   Country: USA

    -   We're using puppet to manage our production infrastructure.

    -   Contact: Ryan Dooley (\_3rdman on irc)

-   **[Speakeasy.net](http://www.speakeasy.net)**

    -   Country: US

    -   We use puppet to manage systems in our datacenter and POP's

        across the US.

    -   Contact: noc@…

-   **[http://www.tvtservices.ch](http://www.tvtservices.ch)**

    -   Country: Switzerland

    -   We are using Puppet to manage all of our servers (DNS, Mail,

        Virtual, Monitoring,...). Just a great tool!

    -   Contact:

        [Galland Grégoire](mailto:g.galland_AT_tvtservices_DOT_ch)

-   **[http://www.immerda.ch](http://www.immerda.ch)**

    -   Country: Switzerland

    -   We are currently starting to integrate puppet on our new

        environment and will migrate the older one as well.

    -   Contact:

        [immerda project group](mailto:admin+puppet_AT_immerda_DOT_ch)

    -   IRC: duritong

    -   Modules: [WEB](http://git.puppet.immerda.ch/) / git clone

        [git://git.puppet.immerda.ch/module](git://git.puppet.immerda.ch/module)-\*

-   **[Suretec Group](http://www.suretecgroup.com)**

    -   Country: UK

    -   We use Puppet to manage all our customers virtual machines (and

        our own) and base platforms with all our node information stored in

        OpenLDAP. We're also part of the OpenLDAP project.

    -   Contact: [Gavin Henry](mailto:ghenry_AT_suretecgroup_DOT_com) -

        ghenry on IRC

-   **[Semantico](http://www.semantico.com)**

    -   Country: UK

    -   We use Puppet to manage over 200 Linux nodes for our publishing clients

        such as Oxford University Press and Wiley Blackwell. We

        now use it to provide full application deployment and systems management, monitoring, and to automate our dev->test->production lifecycle.

    -   Contact: [Mike Pountney](mailto:is_AT_semantico_DOT_com) -

        mikepea on IRC, @mikepea on Twitter

-   **[Sirius Corporation](http://www.siriusit.co.uk)**

    -   Country: UK

    -   We use Puppet to manage the Debian Linux infrastructures we

        deploy.

    -   Contact: [PF McGinty](mailto:info_AT_siriusit_DOT_co_DOT_uk)

-   **[Joost](http://www.joost.com)**

    -   Country: US/NL/UK

    -   Managing the entire Joost infrastructure (200+ servers)

    -   Contact: Joost Operations

    -   IRC: thom

-   **[http://www.directi.com](http://www.directi.com)**

    -   Country: India, USA, China, UAE.

    -   Managing the Linux part of the Directi infrastructure (Covering

        RHEL 3, 4 and 5 supporting web hosting, mail hosting and billing

        servers).

    -   Contact: devdas.b@…

    -   IRC: f3ew

-   **[SANS Institute](http://www.sans.org)**

    -   Country: USA

    -   Contact: Network Operations Center

-   **[Harvard Law School](http://law.harvard.edu)**

    -   If puppet didn't exist then I'd quit my job and become a desert

        nomad. I can't imagine doing what we do here without it!

    -   Country: USA

    -   Contact: Ashley Penney

-   **[End Point Corporation](http://www.endpoint.com)**

    -   Country: USA

    -   Managing portions of our environment where we quickly provision

        and re-provision sets of hosts for different purposes.

    -   Contact: Steven Jenkins

    -   IRC: slj39 and stevenjenkins

-   **[College of Computing @ Georgia Tech](http://www.cc.gatech.edu)**

    -   Currently managing all research servers, clusters, and desktops

        (\~1000 nodes)

    -   Country: USA

    -   Contact: Chad Huneycutt

    -   IRC: chadh

-   **[Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia -- OIIT](http://www.usg.edu/oiit/)**

    -   Managing or about to manage 500 machines running HP-UX 11.11,

        RHEL4 and 5, Solaris 9 and 10

    -   Country: USA

    -   Contacts: Mark Plaksin (happymcplaksin), Sam Rowe (riddley),

        Peter Anderson

-   **[SiteSuite](http://www.sitesuite.com.au)**

    -   Country: Australia

    -   Sitesuite use Puppet to manage our linux (mainly debian)

        infrastructure.

    -   Contact: Brendan Beveridge

    -   IRC: mrproper\_

-   **[Florida Museum of Natural History](http://flmnh.ufl.edu)**

    -   Country: US

    -   We use Puppet to manage our Linux hosts.

    -   Contact: Matt Collins

-   **[Vmmatrix](http://www.vmmatrix.com)**

    -   Country: CHINA

    -   We use Puppet to manage our GNU/Debian hosts.

    -   Contact: huangmingyou

    -   IRC: huangmingyou

-   **[Northshore School District](http://www.nsd.org)**

    -   Country: USA

    -   We use Puppet to manage our Mac Desktops (over 5000).

    -   Contact: ski

    -   IRC: ski98033

-   **[BitPusher, LLC](http://www.bitpusher.com/)**

    -   Country: USA

    -   We deploy puppet for many of our clients including North Shore?

        School District (above).

    -   Contact: E-mail BitPusher or call 888.9-PUSHER

-   **[Freebi Wifi](http://www.freebiwifi.com.au)**

    -   Country: Australia

    -   Freebi Wifi uses puppet to assist in the management of all

        their external freebi servers.

    -   This service has been provided by DCLABS (who use their own

        management tools but are investigating puppet).

    -   Contact: Adam Crow

-   **[Puzzle ITC](http://www.puzzle.ch)**

    -   Country: Switzerland

    -   We are more and more using puppet to manage our complete

        environment

    -   Modules on our Git Server:

        [http://puppet.git.puzzle.ch](http://puppet.git.puzzle.ch)

    -   Modules on Github:

        [http://www.github.com/puzzle](http://www.github.com/puzzle)

    -   Contact:

        [operations(at)puzzle.ch](mailto:operations(at)puzzle.ch.NOSPAM)

-   **[Kontera Technologies, Inc.](http://www.kontera.com/)**

    -   Country: USA

    -   Puppet manages all of our production servers (100 or so, as of

        mid 2008)

-   **[Elastra Corporation](http://www.elastra.com/)**

    -   Country: USA

    -   Puppet automates some of the configuration for Elastra Cloud

        Server

-   **[24/7 Real Media](http://www.247realmedia.com/)**

    -   Country: Global

    -   Puppet handles management of production servers across 3 data

        centers

    -   IRC: windowsrefund on irc.freenode.net

-   **[Alfresco](http://www.alfresco.com/)**

    -   Country: Global

    -   Puppet manages all of our Linux production and test application

        servers.

-   **[Sonoma State University](http://www.sonoma.edu/it/)**

    -   Country: US

    -   Contact: Eric Eisenhart

    -   Currently managing production email servers for campus (Courier

        IMAP/POP, exim, spamassassin, clamav) and a number of other things

        on around 50 out of our 90 Linux and Solaris servers.

-   **[Netsmart Technologies](http://www.ntst.com/)**

    -   Puppet manages our data center infrastructure, production

        databases, middleware, and edge web services.

    -   Country: USA

    -   Contact: Jeff McCune (jmccune on #puppet)

-   **[Mercy Corps](http://mercycorps.org/)**

    -   Country: USA

    -   Contact: Scott Schneider

-   **[Red Hat](http://www.redhat.com)**

    -   In the process of moving off legacy systems and onto Puppet.

    -   Overview:

        [press.redhat.com](http://www.press.redhat.com/2008/04/29/provisioning-our-new-middleware-architecture/)

    -   Country: USA / Global

-   **[KangarooBox](http://www.KangarooBox.com)**

    -   We are using Puppet to remotely manage all of our server

        appliances and is critical to our service offerings.

    -   Country: USA

    -   Contact: [Richard Hurt](mailto:rnhurt-AT-kangaroobox.com)

-   **[Bellcom Open Source](http://www.bellcom.dk)**

    -   Using puppet to manage 50+ mainly debian servers

    -   Country: Denmark

    -   Contact: [Morten M. Hansen](mailto:mmh-AT-bellcom.dk) (blue on #puppet)

-   **[ModularIT project](http://www.modularit.org)**

    -   Puppet is part of the

        [management system](http://www.modularit.org/wiki/modularit/ModularITDescription)

        of our service oriented architecture.

    -   Contact:

        [Get involved section](http://www.modularit.org/wiki/modularit/Contact)

        of the project or Toscalix

-   **[Clickability](http://www.Clickability.com)**

    -   Using puppet to manage 300+ Linux servers across two data

        centers

    -   Country: USA

    -   Contact: [Tom Cignarella](mailto:tom-AT-clickability.com)

-   **[Infineon Technologies](http://www.infineon.com)**

    -   Using puppet to manage our RD Environment servers across many

        data centers on the way to 1500 servers

    -   Country: Global

-   **[Nimag Networks](http://www.nimag.net)**

    -   Using puppet to manage just about everything from web servers

        to BGP routers and [Tahoe](http://allmydata.org/) nodes.

    -   Country: Switzerland

    -   Contact: François Deppierraz (fdz on #puppet)

-   **[Royal Botanic Gardens Kew](http://www.kew.org)**

    -   Using puppet to manage web, database and applications needs for

        Kew scientists

    -   Country: UK

    -   Contact: Tim Kendall

-   **[Student project](https://wikis.khleuven.be/sysnw/index.php/Puppet)**

    -   Using puppet as project for graduation High School

    -   Country: Belgium

    -   Contact: Jan Collijs

-   **[Buzzillions.com product reviews website](http://www.buzzillions.com/)**

    -   Using puppet to provision Tomcat/Apache and other software to

        development and production servers

    -   Country: USA

    -   Contact: Jim Morris

-   **[Optiver, a market making company](http://www.optiver.com/)**

    -   Managing a diverse environment of 300+ nodes. Loving the

        extensibility.

    -   Country: Netherlands, USA, Australia

    -   Contact: Brad Meier

-   **[Adelux France](http://www.adelux.fr/)**

    -   Using Puppet to install/customize big calculus clusters (>100).

        Allows us to customize really easily configurations and packages.

    -   Country: France

    -   Contact:

        [Luc Stepniewski / Lior Gradstein](mailto:luc-DOT-stepniewski-AT-adelux.fr)

-   **[Library of Congress Repository Development Group](http://www.loc.gov/)**

    -   Managing Linux and Solaris nodes in a lab environment.

    -   Country: USA

    -   Contact: Kurt Yoder

-   **[Steria Group](http://www.steria.fr/)**

    -   Managing Linux DEBIAN and REDHAT (RHEL).

    -   Country: France

    -   Contact: Jean-François B.

-   **[Advanced Computing Center for Research and Education](http://www.accre.vanderbilt.edu)**

    -   Using puppet to manage our linux super-cluster: compute nodes,

        gateways, and infrastructure.

    -   Country: USA

    -   Contact: Charles N. Johnson

-   **[WuBook, Tourism Technologies](http://wubook.net/)**

    -   Using puppet to replicate fast test environment configurations

        on developer workstations

    -   Country: Italy

    -   Contact: Gianni Moras

    -   English Site:

        **[WuBook, English Site](http://en.wubook.net/)**

-   **[Locaweb](http://locaweb.com.br)**

    -   Using puppet to manage a diverse environment of 1000+ servers.

    -   Country: Brazil

    -   Contact: Roberto A. Yokota

    -   English Site: **[Locaweb English Site](http://locaweb.com)**

-   **[Rutgers University CSS/NetOps](http://css.rutgers.edu)**

    -   Using puppet to build/install and manage all new Linux servers for one IT systems group.

    -   Country: USA

    -   Contact: Jason Antman

-   **[Siemens IT Solutions and Services Denmark](http://www.siemens.dk/it-solutions)**

    -   Using puppet to manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUN Solaris

        servers.

    -   Country: Denmark, DK

    -   Contact: Martin Alexander Hammer

-   **[Guide To Online Schools](http://www.guidetoonlineschools.com/)**

    -   We provide information on Online Colleges and Degrees to US

        students and we like Puppet better than other Ruby config

        management tools.

    -   Country: USA

    -   Contact: Nathan Grimm: nathan \*at\* reachnetwork dot com

-   **[Pulse Energy](http://pulseenergy.com/)**

    -   Country : Canada

    -   Puppet is key to automatically building and managing the

        configuration of our production and testing environments.

    -   Contact : Chuck Clark: chuck \*at\* pulseenergy dot com

-   **[Fast LTA AG](http://www.fast-lta.de)**

    -   Country: Germany

    -   Using Puppet to manage all Linux servers in 3 datacenters and

        more are upcoming.

    -   Contact: dkn \*AT\* fast-lta \*DOT\* de / Daniel Kerwin

-   **[Inuits](http://www.inuits.be)**

    -   Country: Belgium

    -   Using Puppet to manage all our GNU/Linux servers and we deploy

        it also to our customers

    -   Contact: lefred \*AT\* inuits \*DOT\* be / Frederic Descamps

-   **[Go Chic or Go Home](http://gochicorgohome.com)**

    -   Country: United States

    -   Manages a distributed production and development/test environment

        across both physical and virtual servers, both locally and in a 

        public cloud.

    -   Contact: rjb \*AT\* gochicorgohome \*DOT\* com / Robert Brown

-   **[Bowdoin College](http://www.bowdoin.edu)**

    -   Country: USA

    -   We are using puppet to manage all our network operations

        servers and research computing systems.

    -   Contact: jlavoie \*AT\* bowdoin \*DOT\* edu / Jason Lavoie

-   **[Huron City Schools](http://www.huronhs.com)**

    -   Country: USA

    -   We use puppet to manage our district computers (Mac and Linux)

        as well as selected mission-critical servers. It's a key ingredient

        to our imaging workflow that allows us to completely automate the

        entire process.

    -   Contact: gary \*AT\* huronhs \*DOT\* com / Gary Larizza

-   **[Siruna NV](http://www.siruna.com)**

    -   Country: Belgium

    -   Experimenting with Puppet, plan to use for all servers.

    -   Contact: dieter \*DOT\* vandewalle \*AT\* siruna \*DOT\* com /

        Dieter Van de Walle

-   **[University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies](http://www.umiacs.umd.edu)**

    -   Country: USA

    -   We use puppet to manage all our research system configuration

        management. We use it with a LDAP environment to manage around 1000

        nodes.

    -   Contact: derek \*AT\* umiacs \*DOT\* umd \*DOT\* edu / Derek

        Yarnell

-   **[ReachSmart Interactive](http://www.reachsmart.com)**

    -   Country: USA

    -   Using puppet to manage all physical and virtual servers.

    -   Contact: Scott

-   **[NSDL TNS](http://www.nsdl.org/)**

    -   Country: USA

    -   We manage all our servers (VM and physical) with Puppet.

    -   Contact: Josh Endries

        \<[http://nsdl.org/about/contact/](http://nsdl.org/about/contact/)>

-   **[Clockwork Active Media Systems](http://www.clockwork.net/)**

    -   Country: USA

    -   We manage our web hosting and supporting infrastructure

        completely through Puppet

    -   Contact: Ben (Insyte on #puppet)

-   **[The Computer Action Team - Portland State University](http://www.cat.pdx.edu/)**

    -   Country: USA

    -   If we can get puppet to manage it then we manage it with

        puppet: web servers, mail servers, database servers, client

        machines, and the list continues.

    -   Contact: #support on irc.cat.pdx.edu or support@cat.pdx.edu

-   **[openQRM Enterprise](http://www.openqrm-enterprise.com/)**

    -   Country: Germany

    -   We are using Puppet to automate application deployment in the

        openQRM Cloud.

    -   Contact: Matt Rechenburg

-   **[Atalanta Systems](http://atalanta-systems.com)**

    -   We use Puppet with all our clients - current projects include

        the UK Government's

        [National Strategies](http://www.nationalstrategies.standards.dcsf.gov.uk)

        website, and visual effects studio

        [BASEBLACK](http:///www.baseblack.com)

    -   Contact: Stephen Nelson-Smith (Cope on #puppet,

        [@LordCope](http://www.twitter.com/LordCope) on Twitter)

    -   Resources: Stephen writes about system automation, usually from

        a Puppet perspective, at [Agile Sysadmin](http://agilesysadmin.net)

    -   Country: UK

-   **[Qualigaz](http://www.qualigaz.com/)**

    -   Country : France

    -   We manage all our Linux/BSD/Solaris servers using puppet. We

        have most of our resources managed through manifests.

    -   Contact : nico on #puppet@freenode

-   **[SugarCRM](http://www.sugarcrm.com/)**

    -   Country: United States

    -   We manage all resources within our datacenters using Puppet,

        including the clusters that run our On Demand? environment for

        customers

    -   Contact : ckdake on #puppet

-   **[Reed Business](http://www.reedbusiness.nl/)**

    -   Country: Netherlands

    -   We use Puppet to manage our websites and web application

        platform, (RHEL 5 Linux servers), and are looking into intergrating

        puppet in our existing backoffice infrastructure.

    -   Contact : tom.mulder@…

-   **[Gaggle.Net, Inc.](http://www.gaggle.net/)**

    -   Country : USA

    -   Contact : Chris Moates (cmoates in #puppet)

    -   Our entire server infrastructure (all Linux) is managed with

        puppet.

-   **[Rapid7 LLC](http://www.rapid7.com/)**

    -   Country : USA

    -   We manage all of our Linux infrastructure with puppet, and we

        use the puppet stored config DB to complete other administrative

        activities. My job would not be possible in a regular work week

        without puppet. We also manage pieces of other Unix infrastructure

        with puppet.

    -   Contact : Joe Mc Donagh? (joe-mac) on IRC

-   **[EuPathDB Bioinformatics Resource Center](http://www.eupathdb.org/)**

    -   Country : USA

    -   We are moving to puppet to manage software installation, user

        creation, and service configuration on our database, web

        application, and development servers.

    -   Contact : Brian Pitts

-   **[Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies](http://www.dias.ie/)**

    -   Country : Ireland

    -   Using single puppet server across two sites to manage approximately

        40 desktops, and deploying it to any new servers being setup. 

        Still quite a basic setup, though already saving us time, and

        reducing human error in the setup and maintenance of workstations.

    -   Contact : Sean O Sullivan (seanos on #puppet)

-   **[Dashwire](http://dashwire.com)**

    -   Country : US

    -   Using Puppet to manage multiple data centers and pre-production environments

    -   Contact : [Garrett Honeycutt](mailto:puppet_at_garretthoneycutt.com)

-   **[Softec SpA](http://www.softecspa.com)**

    -   Country: Italy

    -   Using a cluster of two puppet servers with two svn-based environments to manage our [private cloud servers](http://www.ubuntu.com/cloud/private) and our [Scalr](http://www.scalr.net) web-farms on [Amazon EC2](http://aws.amazon.com).

    -   Contact:

        [Lorenzo Salvadorini](mailto:lorenzo.salvadorini_AT_softecspa.it) (lorello on #puppet)

-   **[Match.com](http://match.com)**

    -   Country : US

    -   Using puppet to manage the production email environment in multiple datacenters

    -   Contact : [Mark Bainter] (Shamgar in #puppet)

-   **[OMGPOP](http://omgpop.com)**

    -   Country : US

    -   Puppet creates fun.  We use puppet for server configuration to ensure our users are able to play games, no matter how quickly we grow.

    -   Contact : [Chris Holt](mailto:chris@omgpop.com)

-   **[GLOBAL2000](http://www.global2000.at)** part of Frients of the Earth (FoE)

    -   Country : Austria

    -   Migration still under way, but the plan is to use it to manage all Servers and Clients. Currently its used for about 60 Ubuntu clients and about 20 Servers (mostly VMs).

    -   Future plans: automatic DNS and DHCP via simple tabular files, migration of our mailserver to a VM managed by puppet

    -   Public [GIT](http://github.com/joerg/global2000-puppet)

    -   Contact: Jörg Herzinger (joerg [at] global2000.at)

-   **[Gratka Technologie Sp. z o.o.](http://www.gratka-technologie.pl/)**

    -   Country : Poland

    -   Using puppet to manage production/development environment.

    -   Contact: admin [at] gratka-technologie [dot] pl

-   **[Globo.com](http://www.globo.com/)**

    -   Country : Brazil

    -   We manage our Linux servers (dev/qa/staging/prod environments) using puppet. It enables us to automate the creation of servers with all that a particular application needs to be installed and configured in other to be up and running. With puppet, it is very easy to scale horizontally.

    -   Contact: gustavosouza [at] corp [dot] globo [dot] com (gustavosouza@corp.globo.com)

- **[DevStructure](http://devstructure.com/)**

    - Smart development environments sold as a service that can figure out what you've done to your server and generate Puppet manifests (shell scripts and Chef cookbooks, too).

-   **[universalgatewaysolutions.com](http://universalgatewaysolutions.com/)**

    -   Country : United Kingdom, France, Denmark

    -   Using puppet to manage the development, testing, staging, and production linux environments in multiple datacenters (~60-70 instances). We manage all our linux service using puppet. We used Puppet to automate creation and configuration of all physical and virtual servers. Puppet helped us to scale without requiring additional man-power.

    -   Contact: cc [at] universalgatewaysolutions [dot] com

-   **[Koumbit](http://www.koumbit.org)**

    -   Country: Canada

    -   Puppet manages our core services, customer dedicated servers and virtual machines, as well as our office desktops.

    -   Contact: info [at] koumbit.org

-   **[Atizo AG](http://www.atizo.com)**

    -   Country: Switzerland

    -   We use puppet to manage almost every aspects of the servers we 

        need to run our Brainstorming Platform [Atizo](http://www.atizo.com).

    -   Our modules are publicly available:

        [http://puppet-modules.git.atizo.org](http://puppet-modules.git.atizo.org)

    -   Contact:

        devel(at)atizo[dot]org

-   **[MNX Solutions](http://www.mnxsolutions.com)**

    -   Country: US

    -   We actively deploy Puppet for both new and existing infrastructure of clients that we provide managed-services to. Puppet gives us a cohesive way to manage not only packages and services, but also automate Nagios and Munin management.

    -  Implementations range from a few nodes up to over 100 node configurations both in Amazon EC2 and standard data center deployments.

    -   Contact:

        mark.stanislav[at]mnxsolutions.com

- **[Portland State University, Computing Infrastructure Services](http://computing.pdx.edu)**

   - Country: US

   - We are in the process of migrating from legacy configuration management to Puppet.

   - Contact: wcooley(a)pdx.edu (wilco on #puppet)

-   **[Thumbtack](http://www.thumbtack.com)**

    - Country: US

    - We use puppet to manage our production infrastructure.  Nothing gets deployed on any production machine unless it goes through puppet, and it has been a huge time saver.

    - dan(at)thumbtack[dot]com

-   **[Mangocam](http://www.mangocam.com)**

    - Country: Australia

    - We use puppet to manage our Linux server infrastructure. Upgrading software, deploying our application and to create / configure new nodes. It's really an amazing tool.

    - Contact: info(a)mangocam[dot]com

-   **[Douban](http://www.douban.com)**

    - Country: China

    - We use puppet to manage our Gentoo server infrastructure. From basic system configuration to app deploy.

    - Contact: flex(at)douban.com

# Additional Case Studies

-   [Sun Microsystems](http://reductivelabs.com/2010/01/26/case-study-sun-microsystems-uses-puppet-to-accelerate-system-updates-and-ensure-consistent-configurations-across-their-web-server-architecture/)

-   [Los Alamos National Labs](http://reductivelabs.com/2010/01/19/case-study-los-alamos-uses-puppet-to-gain-visibility-into-their-deployed-mac-os-x-environment/)

# Testimonials

Please add your Puppet testimonials (or links to them) here.

Hopefully we can give prospective users an idea of what's so great

about Puppet and what they can hope to accomplish, as well as

making it clear that Puppet has an active, involved community.

-   [What I'm doing with puppet](http://markmail.org/message/iknseuw4io6slroo)

    - Tim Stoop

-   [What I am doing with Puppet](http://markmail.org/message/2fgarombxgs5w4ty)

    - Julian Simpson

-   [10 Reasons Puppet Wins](http://bitfieldconsulting.com/puppet-vs-chef)

    - John Arundel

-   [How we use Puppet](http://www.huronhs.com/Puppet.html) - Gary

    Larizza

-   We replaced a home-grown, ordered patch-based configuration

    management system with puppet. We support everything from linux

    desktops (primarily rhel with a smattering of Ubuntu) to research

    file servers to clusters used both for hpc and cloud computing. -

    Chad Huneycutt

-   As our infrastructure grew from a few servers to a few racks of

    servers, we're still able to maintain them all with a single

    sysadmin. This would not be possible without Puppet. -- Ben

    Beuchler

-   We replaced lots of ssh-in-a-loop scripts by a bunch of easy

    and clear manifests. It allows us to share the knowledge, get back

    in time on some configs (puppet config & manifests are of course in

    a SVN repository), do not fear the stupid "oops I forgot why this

    file is messed up". A single sysadmin for \~100 unix servers is

    required, and it is me. -- Nicolas Szalay

-   Puppet has allowed us to simplify our system configuration as

    the number of servers continue to grow, which allows a very small

    operations team to tackle complex projects instead of struggling

    with huge numbers of basic system administration tasks.

    Configurations can now be easily deployed to test machines by

    simply adding a Puppet class instead of having to work through the

    intricacies of a piece of software and it's configuration and

    dependencies by hand each time. -- Chris Kelly, SugarCRM

-   Puppet has reduced our personal workload and simplified

    management tasks a lot. Combined with our installation system we

    are able to create any system with almost no manual intervention

    (Puppet replaced MANY custom scripts). The migration to puppet was

    easy and didn't cause any problems worth mentioning. Currently

    puppet manages 3 datacenters and more are upcoming. Thanks for this

    great piece of software. -- Daniel Kerwin

-   Puppet was the cornerstone of our moving our data center from

    San Francisco to Boston. Our old server farm was a nightmare of

    different OS installations, home grown rsync scripts and many

    things done by hand. We moved to new servers in a new data center.

    The entire migration was done remotely. We used kickstart to

    install a minimal RHEL OS and then puppet configured the rest

    including installing additional packages, deploying configuration

    files and enabling and restarting system services. I split the data

    directories on to their own disk partitions, htdocs primarily. This

    allowed me to reinstall a server from bare metal on demand.

    Reinstalling a server takes about 15 minutes. Thanks guys! --

    [Robert Harker](mailto:harker_AT_harker_DOT_com)

-   We moved from an outsourced managed hosting solution to an

    inhouse managed hosting web platform. We use puppet to manage our

    web platform, which are mainly Virtual machines. All our puppet

    scripts are managed using git and devided up into 3 main branches,

    (Testing, Acceptation & Production). We use puppet to setup and

    deploy our web application servers on the servers, this reduced a

    lot of setup time for each deployment during our platform

    migration, and new rollouts. -- Tom Mulder, Reed Business

-   We used puppet so that developers could declare the

    dependencies of our codebase.

    [Cooling Dependency Hell](http://www.build-doctor.com/2009/12/09/dependency-hell/)

    --Julian Simpson, The Build Doctor

-   Puppet is an integral part of our systems management tool set.

    We use puppet to manage services running on Linux systems in our

    datacenter, POPs, and labs. The great thing about configuration

    management with Puppet is that we don't have to reinvent the wheel

    every time we setup a new service or install a server. For

    instance, configuring an Apache server only requires including the

    apache class and adding a vhost config. Thinking of infrastructure

    as code is definitely the way to go. -Eric Heydrick, Speakeasy

-   We were looking for a tool to ensure consistency across our

    servers and reduce our reliance on homebrewed scripts. It was easy

    to learn the basics of Puppet, so it didn't take long to create

    recipes to handle the basic configuration of our servers. As we

    work on more complicated configuration, the sample recipes on the

    wiki and modules published on github have been a great help. -Brian

    Pitts, EuPathDB