back to article How do you do, fellow kids? Grandpa Puppet gets down with Docker

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 …

  1. phuzz Silver badge

    "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"

    1. TheVogon

      ""Puppet claims that it's being used by 75 per cent of the Fortune 500 companies""

      Used = someone somewhere in the org downloaded something ever from their website.

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        'Used' as in 'evaluated for ten minutes, binned as laughable, and yet they still can't get off the bloody mailing list five years later so they're counted as a user.

        Does anyone else remember AOL calculating their 'membership' by 'the number of free software CDs they'd given away?

        1. Anonymous Coward
          Anonymous Coward

          "Does anyone else remember AOL calculating their 'membership' by 'the number of free software CDs they'd given away?"

          Yes! I also remember being the one giving them away to every poor sod who came into the PC World store I worked, at least before Freeserve came along.

  2. JLV

    you saw that too?

    Though, between Puppet having an obvious incentive to exaggerate and Gartner, being, well, Gartner, it's hard to guess who's closer to the mark.

  3. mettlemonkey

    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

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