New platform streamlines enterprise software deployment

Modern software is often complex, perhaps running services on multiple machines. This can make deployments complex and prone to errors.

Software deployment specialist Puppet is launching the latest version of its Puppet Enterprise platform which gives development teams control over and insight into the changes they want to push out.

At the same time the company is launching a software operations platform called Blueshift. It engages with products like Docker to give organizations the tools they need to build and operate modern software.

"We're driven by a belief that software can make people more powerful," says Luke Kanies, founder and CEO of Puppet. "To make that a reality, we're focused on building the standard platform for automating delivery and operation of the software that powers everything around us. Puppet gives organizations a common language to deliver and operate modern infrastructure and to adopt whatever comes next -- simply, securely, and consistently".

Puppet makes it possible to push out any change on demand and manage ordered deployments of applications and infrastructure. It's also possible to schedule change in a specific time window, and push change through tools like HipChat, Git, Jenkins or directly with Puppet Enterprise.

Operators gain visibility into deployments and can manage them as required. Thanks to an interactive dependency graph, teams can visualize dependencies across all the resources they manage with Puppet.

There's also integration with the Splunk operational intelligence platform. This allows users to analyze their infrastructure and get performance metrics for Puppet Enterprise services with data sent direct to Splunk Enterprise.

You can find out more on the Puppet website.

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