[8] Puppet consists of a custom declarative language to describe system configuration.

[9] Puppet is designed to manage the configuration of Unix-like and Microsoft Windows systems declaratively.

The Agent then applies the configuration on the system and sends a status report to the server.

The round was led by Cisco and included Kleiner Perkins, True Ventures, EDBI, and VMware.

[20] Puppet's partners include VMware, Amazon Web Services, Cisco, OpenStack, Microsoft Azure, Eucalyptus, and Zenoss.

[21] In April 2022, it was announced Puppet had been acquired by the Minneapolis-headquartered software developer, Perforce.