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How Puppet is Redefining Infrastructure Management with AI, Powered by Perforce Intelligence

AI has emerged as a defining force in modern technology, spearheading transformation across industries. Yet, despite its promise to revolutionize workflows and unlock unprecedented efficiency, most DevOps organizations face significant hurdles in adopting AI safely and effectively. Concerns about complexity, scalability, and governance hold many decision makers back.

Getting Started with Puppet Infra Assistant: A Complete Guide

Managing today's complex enterprise infrastructure presents significant challenges — from siloed data and steep learning curves to time-consuming troubleshooting. As the pace of business accelerates and infrastructure demands grow, these obstacles are increasingly difficult to overcome. That’s why we built Infra Assistant, a new AI capability in Puppet Enterprise Advanced, powered by Perforce Intelligence.

Puppet Infra Assistant: AI-Powered Natural Language Queries

Finding critical infrastructure insights shouldn't be a game of hide-and-seek. The new AI-powered Infra Assistant is a natural language interface that allows users of any skill level to chat with Puppet data and services for quick insights and reporting on infrastructure state. You don't need any Puppet experience to get started; it's safe to use in your infrastructure; and it's secured with explicit opt-in and robust role-based access control.

Setup Guide: Infra Assistant for Natural Language Puppet Queries

Learn how to get started with Puppet Infra Assistant quickly with a step-by-step guide and examples. Infra Assistant makes it easier to interact with Puppet data and services with a natural language interface. It's "bring your own key" with support for OpenAI and Azure OpenAI (with more coming soon), and secured with opt-in requirements and role-based access control.

The Real Cost of DIY Infrastructure Management vs. Enterprise-Ready Solutions

Many IT teams underestimate the true cost of managing infrastructure themselves. At first glance, DIY tools may seem like a cost-effective and flexible solution — but the workflows you build and manage with in-house tooling reveal a host of hidden expenses, inefficiencies, and risks as your IT scales. While it’s not a new problem, it’s one that’s revealing itself more and more clearly as time goes on.

Infra Assistant in Puppet: Talk to Your Infrastructure with Natural Language

Improve productivity and get critical insights faster — no Puppet experience required. Infra Assistant is a natural language interface for interacting with Puppet data and services, saving time and making critical insights available faster than ever. Powered by Perforce Intelligence, Infra Assistant helps teams increase efficiency, reduce manual effort, eliminate bottlenecks, and unlock the goldmine of data on your infrastructure — all while maintaining enterprise-grade security and compliance.

Open Source Automation Tools: Popular Options & How to Choose the Right One for Your Needs

When looking at the broad landscape of IT automation tools, you’ll find dozens (if not hundreds) of tools that seem like viable solutions to your automation needs. Almost all of those tools can be broken down into two categories: Open source automation tools and commercial automation tools. (Open source automation tools with a commercial offering are still considered open source, even if the commercial edition has a price tag.)

System Hardening Explained: Types, Techniques, Examples & Mistakes to Know

The broad umbrella of today's IT security includes standards, tools, technologies, and human practices that reduce risk and protect your systems. System hardening is one conceptual catch-all for those components of IT security — but what does system hardening mean in relation to your actual day-to-day operations? And how do you achieve system hardening without burdening your whole team?