diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2023-04-2023-06/puppet.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2023-04-2023-06/puppet.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..031d5cc981 --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2023-04-2023-06/puppet.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +=== Puppet + +Links: + +link:https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/latest/puppet_index.html[Puppet] URL: link:https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/latest/puppet_index.html[] + + +Contact: Puppet Team + +Puppet is a Free Software configuration management tool, composed of a source of trust (Puppet Server) that describes the expected configuration of machines with a domain-specific language, and an agent (Puppet Agent) on each node which enforces that the actual configuration matches the expected one. +An optional database (PuppetDB) can be setup for reporting and describing advanced schemas where the configuration of a machine depends on the configuration of another one. + +The Puppet team is maintaining ports for Puppet and related tools. + +Puppet 8 has been recently released and has been added to the ports tree. + +Puppet 6 has reached End of Life and has been deprecated. +It is now expired. +Users of Puppet 6 are therefore advised to update to Puppet 7 or Puppet 8. + +For now, Puppet 7 remains the default Puppet version for ports depending on Puppet. +The Puppet Community is hard at work making sure the various Puppet modules work with the latest code and at the time of writing this report, updating to Puppet 8 may be challenging. +The situation is getting better every day, and we expect to switch to Puppet 8 as the default version of Puppet in a few months, when the wave of module updates is finished.