Probably the best known application for distributed management is Puppet, developed by Puppet Labs. Unlike FAI, only the Open Source edition is free, the Enterprise edition, which has many additional features, is not. Puppet does include support for environments other than Linux. The desired configuration is described in a custom, high-level definition language, and distributed to systems with installed clients. Unlike FAI, Puppet does not provide its own bare metal remote installation method, but does use existing methods (such as kickstart) to provide this function. A number of companies that make heavy use of distributed and clustered systems use Puppet to manage their environments. More information is available at http://puppetlabs.com/.
