"Puppet claims that it's being used by 75 per cent of the Fortune 500 companies"
"Gartner reckons fewer than 20 per cent of IT organisations have automation in their IT management portfolios."
"82% of statistics are made up"
It's strange when you're no longer the new kid on the block. First, you're the hippest of the hip, the one that everyone envies and then, suddenly, you're looking that little bit older, and generally less interesting. That's the rather curious position that configuration management players like Puppet and Chef find themselves …
The interesting thing about Docker is that everyone seems to think it will solve all of their problems, cure child cancer, and bring about world peace. It's an amazing tool, but configuration management still plays a part, moving all your configuration into Dockerfiles is regressing to the old days of golden images and platform specific, isolated, configuration code
Puppet and Docker working together seems like a great partnership to me, as they both bring things to the table