Perforce Puppet provides desired-state infrastructure automation and governance software for organizations that need to standardize, secure, and operate complex environments at scale. Its platform is built to automate configuration management, enforce policy as code, reduce drift, and improve operational consistency across data center, cloud, hybrid, network, and edge infrastructure.
As part of the Perforce portfolio, Perforce Puppet positions its offerings around intelligent infrastructure governance for enterprise operations teams. Its commercial portfolio spans vendor-backed core automation, enterprise infrastructure operations, advanced security and observability capabilities, an open source community ecosystem, and professional services that help customers implement, optimize, and expand automation programs.
Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations
Perforce Puppet centers its value proposition on policy-driven automation and continuous desired-state enforcement. Its capabilities cover configuration management, orchestration, compliance and security controls, patching and vulnerability workflows, AI-assisted infrastructure interactions, and automation for mixed Linux, Windows, cloud, network, and edge estates. The platform combines declarative automation with agent-based and agentless execution so teams can manage heterogeneous infrastructure from a unified operating model.
Perforce Puppet also emphasizes toolchain interoperability. It supports integrations for AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, and connects with platforms such as ServiceNow, Terraform and Vault by HashiCorp, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, and New Relic. This lets customers extend automation into provisioning, ITSM, observability, secrets management, and hybrid cloud operations without replacing the rest of their stack.
Products and Services
- Puppet Core: Vendor-backed foundational automation offering with hardened builds, enterprise-tested releases, CVE remediation SLAs, compliance enforcement content, and onboarding guidance from certified engineers.
- Puppet Enterprise: Enterprise infrastructure operations platform for continuous desired-state enforcement, configuration management, automation at scale, web-based administration, and management of complex cloud and hybrid environments.
- Puppet Enterprise Advanced: Premium edition of the Puppet Enterprise platform that adds advanced security enforcement, self-service automation, AI-powered infrastructure capabilities, observability integrations, advanced patching, vulnerability remediation, and impact analysis.
- Open Source Puppet: Free, community-supported Puppet automation offering that remains maintained by Perforce Puppet for teams building and sharing desired-state infrastructure automation.
- Puppet Forge: Community and commercial module ecosystem where users can find, manage, and contribute thousands of Puppet modules, while also accessing tools such as PDK and Bolt.
- Puppet Services: Professional services portfolio covering setup, implementation, integration, optimization, migration, compliance, patching, residency, technical account management, and training services.
- Puppet Black Belt Services: Flexible services engagement model that gives customers access to dedicated Puppet engineers in packaged weekly hours for code review, best practices, upgrades, migration, and adoption support.
- Puppet Edge: Network and edge device management capability for Puppet Core and the Puppet Enterprise platform that extends governance and automation to firewalls, switches, routers, POS systems, and other distributed devices using agentless and mixed-mode operations.
- Security Compliance Enforcement: Premium security policy enforcement capability that continuously aligns systems to CIS Benchmarks and DISA STIGs, remediates drift, and supports audit-ready reporting across Windows and Linux environments.
- Vulnerability Remediation: Puppet Enterprise Advanced capability for integrating scanner data, prioritizing risk, and automating patch and remediation workflows from the Puppet Enterprise console.
- Observability Data Connector: Puppet Enterprise Advanced capability that exports Puppet event and infrastructure data into observability platforms such as Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, and New Relic.
- AI for Infrastructure Management: AI-enabled capability set powered by Perforce Intelligence that provides natural-language infrastructure insights, read-only query assistance, and environment-aware code assist with opt-in and role-based controls.
- Impact Analysis: Capability that shows the potential effect of Puppet code changes before merge or deployment, helping teams reduce risk from disruptive infrastructure changes.
Target Customers
Perforce Puppet primarily serves enterprise infrastructure and platform teams responsible for keeping large environments consistent, secure, and audit-ready. Its buyers and users commonly include IT operations, system administration, DevOps, platform engineering, SRE, and security or compliance teams that need stronger control over configuration, patching, and operational workflows.
The company is especially relevant for organizations with hybrid, multi-cloud, and regulated environments. Perforce Puppet markets directly to industries including government, healthcare, financial services, retail and consumer goods, and software and IT services, where infrastructure standardization, policy enforcement, audit readiness, and scalable automation are core operational requirements.
Cloud Integrations and Marketplace
- AWS Marketplace: Perforce Puppet offers Puppet Enterprise deployment for AWS and states that customers can bring their own licenses and launch Puppet Enterprise from an AMI available in AWS Marketplace.
- Azure Marketplace: Perforce Puppet provides Azure infrastructure automation guidance and states that Puppet is available through Azure Marketplace for deploying and managing Azure environments.
- Google Cloud Platform: Perforce Puppet supports Google Cloud Platform through an integration page and Puppet Approved modules for provisioning, configuring, and managing GCP resources alongside the rest of a hybrid estate.
Key People
- Jim Cassens: Chief Executive Officer
- Mike Goergen: Chief Financial Officer
- Adam Olson: Chief Revenue Officer
- Colleen Kulhanek: Chief Marketing Officer
- Anjali Arora: Chief Technology Officer
- Tzvika Shahaf: Vice President of Product Management
- Margaret Lee: Manager of Product Management
- Jason St-Cyr: Developer Relations Leader
Key Facts
- Headquarters: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
- Employees: 501-1,000
- Annual Revenue: $100M+ ARR
- Parent Company: Perforce Software, Inc.
- Subsidiaries: None
- Publicly Listed: No
Analyst Recognitions
- Forrester: The Forrester Wave: Infrastructure Automation Platforms, Q4 2024 — Strong Performer.
