BOSH vs Puppet

BOSH

Cloud Foundry BOSH is an open source tool chain for release engineering, deployment and lifecycle management of large scale distributed services. (by cloudfoundry)

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Source Code

bosh.io

Puppet

Server automation framework and application (by puppetlabs)

#DevOps Tools

Source Code

puppet.com

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BOSH		Puppet
	Project
0	Mentions	2
2,004	Stars	6,954
0.4%	Growth	1.0%
9.8	Activity	9.6
5 days ago	Latest Commit	3 days ago
Ruby	Language	Ruby
Apache License 2.0	License	Apache License 2.0

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

BOSH

Posts with mentions or reviews of BOSH. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning BOSH yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

Puppet

Posts with mentions or reviews of Puppet. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-04.

What do you use ruby for?
5 projects | reddit.com/r/ruby | 4 Jul 2022

I will happily direct your attention here: https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet
Faster module tests with Facter 4 and rspec-puppet
6 projects | dev.to | 22 Jan 2022

We started by decoupling Puppet from Facter as much as we could, introducing the possibility of having multiple Facter backends. While Puppet would use the default Facter implementation when running on its own, external users would be able to define and pass their own Facter implementation when initializing Puppet, similar to how puppetserver configures Puppet to use its JRuby-compliant HTTP client.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing BOSH and Puppet you can also consider the following projects:

kubernetes - Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

Ansible - Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.

Vagrant - Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments.

Chef - Chef Infra, a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code automating how infrastructure is configured, deployed and managed across any environment, at any scale

Juju - Universal Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM) for Kubernetes operators, and operators for traditional Linux apps, with declarative integration between operators for automated microservice integration.

Capistrano - A deployment automation tool built on Ruby, Rake, and SSH.

Pulumi - Pulumi - Infrastructure as Code in any programming language. Build infrastructure intuitively on any cloud using familiar languages 🚀

Mina - Blazing fast application deployment tool.

Ruby-LXC - ruby bindings for liblxc

PuPHPet - Vagrant/Puppet GUI