New Puppet Service Offerings

Take advantage of our extensive Puppet expertise to achieve your goals.

TL;DR: Open Infrastructure Services (OIS) is proud to announce several new Puppet service offerings intended for customers of varying size, from hundreds to millions of managed nodes.

The commonality that unites the three of us at Open Infrastructure Services (OIS) is the fact that at some point in time, we all were members of Puppet Inc.’s Professional Services team. We were the engineers that were dispatched to solve the most complex customer issues, and together we have more than 25 years of experience in designing, customizing, and troubleshooting Puppet deployments. It’s that experience that allows us to solve real world problems in a predictable and timely manner, and we value our reputation of being able to deliver for our customers.

That’s why today we’re proud to announce several new Puppet service offerings available now to organizations of any size! While it’s not an exhaustive list, it does comprise some of the most popular features we’ve built in the past 6 years.

Safer Puppet Changes

Are Puppet changes causing incidents in your organization? Have you experienced service outages due to a Puppet code change which rolls out too quickly to control? Are you looking for a proven method to target a small group of nodes for a risky change, validate the results, then safely release it to the rest of your managed fleet?

This is a problem all large Puppet deployments need to solve, and we recently designed a solution for a large social media company that allowed them to reduce Puppet-related incidents from at least one per-month, to zero reported for more than an entire year.

The existing tools to solve this problem are ineffective at the scale of hundreds of thousands to millions of managed nodes. As a result, we developed a new, effective solution which:

  1. Unlocks the ability to perform canary analysis on Puppet changes.
  2. Reduces engineering time by adding scheduling policies to risky changes.
  3. Leverages cloud native advancements in observability and traffic management.
  4. Uses the same workflows as are used for application level container rollouts.

We’d love to share how our solution reduces the risk of production changes.

Advanced Reporting

Does your organization struggle with these questions about production changes?

  • When was a recent production change enforced on all managed nodes?
  • Was the production change successful or were there failures?
  • Was a recent Puppet change a contributing factor to a production incident?
  • What are the most common resource failures across teams?
  • Are nodes no longer being managed at all?

Many of these questions can be answered by the Puppet Enterprise Dashboard, but what if your organization doesn’t use Puppet Enterprise or has outgrown Puppet Enterprise? PuppetDB is open source and may help at smaller scales, but what if the number of nodes in your organization exceeds PuppetDB’s limits?

We recently built an advanced big data reporting solution using BigQuery and Data Studio to answer these questions. This solution worked well in production, scaling to hundreds of thousands of managed nodes and millions of Puppet run reports per day.

We’re available to tailor a reporting solution to the needs of your organization.

Module Development

The Puppet Forge has grown to contain thousands of Puppet modules managing as many applications and technologies, but it never seems to have the specific module that does what you need. And while the Puppet language (DSL) is legible and approachable, it’s VERY easy for a “simple fix” to trigger a cascade of unintended consequences.

Wouldn’t it be great if you could explain what you need and have someone write you a customized solution, conforming to best practices, complete with tests and USABLE documentation?

That’s exactly the kind of service we offer at OIS.

The Puppet experts at OIS have been writing Puppet modules since 2009, and have been following (and creating) best practices through to today. We literally wrote the book on the subject. Whether it’s writing a completely new module from scratch, or adding new functionality to existing code, we are here to help you work smarter, not harder.

Open Source Puppet Support

Free and open-source software (FOSS) is a bedrock principle at OIS - it puts the “Open” in “Open Infrastructure!” We also understand that customers using the FOSS version of Puppet have limited options when it comes to support plans. That’s why we offer first class support for ALL Puppet users, regardless of whether you’re using the Enterprise or FOSS editions. It doesn’t matter how old your code is or what your server stack looks like, we are here to help.

Whether you have a specific problem that needs a solution, or simply need the ability to contact the experts when problems arise, we can craft a support plan to fit your needs.


As we said above, this is not an exhaustive list of every Puppet service we’re able to offer. Do you have a problem that doesn’t fit neatly into one of the offerings above? Contact us and let’s start the conversation. Our most impactful engagements have started this way, and we’d be happy to discuss your goals.