With an update to its namesake configuration tool, Puppet Labs has introduced a programming language designed to give administrators more flexibility in scripting their deployment routines.
Puppet 3.2.1, the first public release in the Puppet 3.2 series, can also now accept external certificate authorities (CAs), allowing organizations to use their in-house authorization systems with their Puppet deployments.
Puppet is open-source software that system administrators can use to help manage systems. It can be used to automate repetitive tasks, deploy applications and manage the process of adding servers to scale systems.
“Puppet’s configuration language has always been focused on the best combination of simplicity and power, and my goal was always to have it be more like a configuration file than a programming language,” wrote Luke Kanies, founder and CEO of Puppet Labs, in an email interview. “However, as our community has built more sophisticated infrastructures with Puppet Enterprise ... people have needed more power in the language.”
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