Puppet has come a long way since it's initial release in 2005, however, it has usually followed client-server architecture, together with its nemesis Chef (which later on released chef-solo for running masterless). A lot of the more recent configuration management tools such as Ansible and Salt dropped this client-server architecture …

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Triggered by multiple independent events, including (but not limited to) an opinionated blogpost describing The Evolution of Distributed Systems Management that got quite some readers from Hacker News, the Devops Weekly newsletter and probably created a bit of a stir in the Configuration Management community and things that I noticed …

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