Another reason for puppet being less popular is lots of places ended up with very complicated configuration that did everything on the server but was hard to work with.
Ansible you could deploy a small playbook that did just one thing. A lot easier to get started with and keep under control.
As others have mentioned puppet was also a lot less useful when server images can per-configured and often short lived. It was more designed to take a bare OS install and turn into a long-lived server.
Ansible you could deploy a small playbook that did just one thing. A lot easier to get started with and keep under control.
As others have mentioned puppet was also a lot less useful when server images can per-configured and often short lived. It was more designed to take a bare OS install and turn into a long-lived server.