Puppet Labs Extends Reach of Management Framework

According to Puppet Labs CEO Luke Kanies, the company is trying to build an ecosystem around its open source systems management platform that makes it simpler for companies to reuse management templates for specific systems management scenarios. For example, a company using Puppet might write the code and then publish templates for managing servers running Hadoop that other members of the community could benefit from.

Kanies says that Puppet Labs, which this week raised an additional $5 million in financing, will also develop commercial templates for various systems management scenarios.

Puppet Labs is part of over a half dozen emerging providers of systems management tools that are looking to usurp the major providers of systems management tools that typically cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and take weeks to install.

With the new release, Puppet Labs is adding support for RESTful application programming interfaces to simplify integration, an event model to aid in the development of reports and monitoring tools, support for the Ruby development language, and preliminary support for Windows.