PORTLAND, OR--(Marketwired - Apr 7, 2016) - Puppet, the standard for automating the delivery and operation of the software that powers everything around us, today announced Project Blueshift and the availability of Puppet Enterprise 2016.1, the most advanced software operations platform available. Blueshift represents Puppet's role as the bridge to the future, giving Puppet users the resources they need to adopt the next big thing in a standard, predictable way. New innovations in Puppet Enterprise 2016.1 enable organizations to orchestrate change, giving them direct control and real-time visibility as they deploy changes across infrastructure and applications.
"We're driven by a belief that software can make people more powerful," said 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."
Project Blueshift
Blueshift represents Puppet's engagement with leading-edge technologies and their communities -- technologies like Docker, Mesos, and Kubernetes -- and Puppet's commitment to giving organizations the tools to build and operate constantly modern software. Because Puppet is a common language for modern infrastructure management that spans the entire data center, using Puppet makes it easier for organizations to adopt new technologies, even in brownfield environments.
In collaboration with Puppet's vibrant community of more than 30,000 organizations around the world, Blueshift is addressing some of the most exciting technologies in the industry, engaging with the communities and technologies around projects like:
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Docker. Puppet can install and configure the popular Docker Engine, as well as other tools Docker Inc. provides for managing containers -- Compose, Swarm, and Network. Puppet also quickly gets Docker Universal Control Plane up and running across Docker hosts.
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Kubernetes. Google's container management system is growing in popularity. The Puppet module for Kubernetes makes it easy to manage Pods, Replication Controllers, Services, and more in Kubernetes, and to build domain-specific interfaces to one's Kubernetes configuration.
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Mesosphere DCOS. An enterprise-scale platform that treats a data center like a single computer. The components that comprise DCOS, including Apache Mesos and Mesosphere's Marathon, are running in production at Apple, Yelp, Verizon, and other large organizations. The Puppet community has developed several modules to install Mesos and the most popular Mesos frameworks, and methods for managing Mesos with Puppet, too. Additionally, Puppet and Mesosphere are working together on a module to install and configure Mesosphere DCOS.
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Consul. Hashicorp's open source tool for discovering services on networks can be installed and managed with Puppet. Using the two together helps companies automate different services in the data center, thanks to the work of Puppet community members.
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CoreOS. The company behind this distribution of Linux, designed for large deployments on varied infrastructure, has released other popular open source projects, including Tectonic, a Kubernetes distribution; rkt, a container engine; etcd, a distributed configuration store; and Flannel, a virtual networking component. All of these work well with Puppet, thanks to modules created by the Puppet community.