Getting a license

Contact our sales team to purchase a new license, renew your license, upgrade to Puppet Enterprise Advanced, or increase your licensed nodes.

A standard Puppet Enterprise license includes Security Compliance Management (formerly Comply) and Continuous Delivery.

If you have a Puppet Enterprise or Puppet Enterprise Advanced license including the Puppet Edge add-on, you gain access to the following capabilities:

  • Playbook Runner premium module: Use the Playbook Runner to run the following tasks:

    • Run Ansible® Playbook
    • Run Ansible® ad-hoc command
  • EdgeOps premium module: Provides tools for managing network devices.

For Puppet Enterprise Advanced customers, the Edge add-on includes access to the following additional capabilities:

  • Infra Assistant: code assist: Support for code generation enabling you to use AI to generate content to manage your devices.

  • Workflows on the PE console: Workflows are designed to help simplify development and execution of IT operations automation.

You can choose the Puppet Enterprise Advanced license to unlock the following premium features:

  • Impact Analysis: By enabling the advanced capabilities of this feature within Continuous Delivery, you can generate reports to analyze the potential impact and risks before merging new Puppet code.
  • Security Compliance Enforcement (SCE) (formerly CEM): Ensure that your server configurations comply with the security best practices outlined in the Center for Internet Security (CIS) benchmarks.
  • Observability Data Connector: Export critical Puppet data to your existing observability tools for real-time insights.

  • Self Service Spoke for ServiceNow: Enables teams to execute actions on Puppet managed infrastructure directly from ServiceNow.

  • Advanced Patching with vulnerability remediation: By enabling the Advanced Patching service this advanced patch management service, you can automate and manage system and security updates. By integrating data from a third-party security scanner, you can access fast remediation of detected vulnerabilities on affected nodes.

  • Puppet AI Infra Assistant: Designed to be used by technical and non-technical users, explore your infrastructure data using an AI-powered natural language interface.

Security Compliance Enforcement (SCE) and advanced Impact Analysis capabilities are also available for individual purchase with a standard license.
To reduce your active node count and free up licenses, remove inactive nodes from your deployment. By default, nodes with Puppet agents are automatically deactivated after seven days with no activity (no new facts, catalog, or reports).

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