bashton Business Focused Open Source

If your network has more than a couple of servers, you're no doubt already aware of the difficulties managing all these resources effectively. It's all too easy for mistakes to be made when a systems administrator is faced with performing the same monotonous task several times across different machines.

Fortunately, there is now an open-source solution to help in the form of Puppet. Used worldwide by a number of high-profile Universities and Internet start-ups, Puppet is now gaining a growing userbase in the wider IT community.

Puppet supports Linux, Solaris, BSD and MacOS X, giving you central management of your systems even in heterogeneous environments. Performing tasks such as managing users, installing, upgrading and configuring applications, Puppet allows system administrators to concentrate on the services they are providing, rather than mundane repetitive tasks.

Bashton can provide full support, consultancy and training for Puppet. We have already built a number of large-scale cluster deployments using it, as well as managing our in-house infrastructure entirely via Puppet.