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Puppet vs pyinfra: catalog facts
Puppet	pyinfra
Paid A commercial product from Perforce; prices are not listed on the homepage.	Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.
Windows, Linux, Command line	macOS, Linux, Command line
Enforces declared server state and corrects drift Puppet Forge library of shared modules	Deployments and inventories are plain Python, with no YAML or DSL Agentless, needing only SSH access to the targets
Aimed at organisations rather than individuals Has its own configuration language to learn	Requires Python 3.10 or later on the control machine Writing deploys assumes comfort with Python
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Closed source	Open source
License not stated	License: MIT
Not stated if an account is needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 24, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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