Chef and Puppet are often held up as the two big names in the first generation of IT automation. About the same time that virtualization was growing to dominance, these two companies, and the open source initiatives they’re involved with, sprung up to allow IT operators to automate their server setup and deployment.
The rationale for these players was obvious: Since servers were no longer physical items that needed to be set up in person every time, it made sense that organizations could develop “recipes” for their servers, thus eliminating repetitive setup tasks and speeding up the deployment of servers.
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