Purchasing and activating your Puppet Enterprise license

The Puppet Enterprise license gives you access to Security Compliance Management (formerly Puppet Comply) and Continuous Delivery.

With the Puppet Enterprise Advanced license, you gain access to additional premium features: Security Compliance Enforcement, and advanced capabilities for the Impact Analysis feature in Continuous Delivery.

Security Compliance Enforcement and advanced Impact Analysis capabilities are also available for individual purchase with a standard license.

Your license must support the number of nodes that you want to manage with Puppet Enterprise.

Trial license

To try out Puppet Enterprise (PE), you can manage up to 10 nodes at no charge, and no license key is needed. When you have 11 or more active nodes and no license key, license warnings appear in the console until you install an appropriate license key.

PE agents and repo tarballs are stored in a private repository, however as a PE trial user you have access to the agent on the operating system you’ve installed the Puppet server on.

Purchased license

To manage 11 or more active nodes, you must purchase a license. After you purchase a license and install a license key file, your licensed node count and subscription expiration date appear on the License page.

To support occasional spikes in node usage, you have a bursting quota. This means that on up to four days each calendar month you can exceed your licensed node count up to your bursting limit, which is double the number of your licensed nodes. If you exceed the bursting quota by using additional nodes on more than four days in a calendar month, or exceed the bursting limit at any time, you must purchase more nodes for your license. In these cases, license warnings appear in the console until you contact your Puppet representative.

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