Introducing Puppet Edge and new Puppet Enterprise releases!

[Puppet Product Updates]

A New Way to Manage Network and Edge Devices 

Edge environments are expanding rapidly, yet most organizations lack visibility and control over these devices. Nearly half of network outages are caused by configuration errors, and traditional agent-based approaches aren’t practical for many edge or network systems.  

 

Puppet Edge, a capability available for Puppet Core and the Puppet Enterprise platform, addresses this challenge with agentless, task-based orchestration for network and edge devices, complementing existing desired state automation for servers and delivering flexibility without compromising compliance. 

 

Puppet Edge combines the power of Puppet and a hardened version of Puppet Bolt to deliver orchestration for edge devices. It also introduces two powerful new modules:  

• Playbook Runner – Incorporate external content into your Puppet processes, enabling seamless integration of existing orchestration playbooks from tools like Ansible®. It provides structured execution, improved logic branching, and better error and inventory handling for resiliency and greater ease of use. 
   
• EdgeOps - Delivers enterprise-grade tools for managing network and edge devices at scale. Built on a robust Ruby implementation of the NETCONF protocol, it enables configuration management, operational tasks, lock management, and schema discovery for network devices, with the reliability and scalability you expect from Puppet 

 

Customers who use Puppet Edge with Puppet Enterprise Advanced will receive additional exclusive features, including Workflows for composing tasks, plans, and playbooks; and expanded Infra Assistant capabilities to include code assist to generate code to manage edge devices. 

 

• Workflows - Composing tasks, plans, and playbooks – including those run through Playbook Runner – in Workflows enables imperative orchestration of edge devices in a streamlined, reusable format. Power users can build and share complex workflows, allowing teammates to execute sophisticated orchestration without deep Puppet knowledge. 

 

• Infra Assistant: code assist – Code generation is now supported in Infra Assistant, enabling the use of AI to generate content to help manage network and edge devices. 
   

Puppet Enterprise 2023.8.6 and 2025.6 have been released! 

Alongside Edge, we are excited to announce that Puppet Enterprise (PE) 2023.8.6 and 2025.6 (PE and PE Advanced) are here and feature powerful new enhancements and updates, including improvements to Advanced Patching, bugfixes and security updates. 

 

Advanced Patching 

Puppet Enterprise Advanced 2025.6 introduces greater flexibility to the Advanced Patching feature. 

From the PE console, users can now edit maintenance windows, blackout windows, and scheduled patch jobs directly making patch management more agile and user-friendly. The same functionality is also available via API, enabling automation and integration with external systems. 

 

Benefits of upgrading to PE Advanced 2025.6: 

• Edit maintenance and blackout windows with Advanced Patching 
• Edit scheduled patch jobs with Advanced Patching 
• Security and reliability enhancements 

• Over 50 CVEs addressed 

• Benefits of upgrading to PE 2025.6 and 2023.8.6: 
• Security and reliability enhancements 

• Over 50 CVEs addressed 

 

 

For more detailed information about the new enhancements and improvements included in PE 2023.8.6 and 2025.6, please see the release notes for PE 2023.8.6 here and the release notes for PE 2025.6 here. 

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