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Reductive Labs, Parent of the Puppet Automation Tool, Gets $2 Million

We've written about Puppet, a long-standing open source tool for automating virtual machines and the management of them, several times. Built on the legacy of the Cfengine system, Puppet is increasingly being used in the fast-growing cloud computing space. It lets system administrators write "recipes" that specify machine functions and maintenance jobs that automate routine work. Now, Puppet's parent, Reductive Labs, has announced a $2 million Series A round of funding led by Silicon Valley-based True Ventures and other private investors. (Disclosure: True Ventures is an investor in the parent company of this blog, Giga Omni Media. Om Malik, founder of Giga Omni Media, is also a venture partner at True.)

As Aaron Huslage covered in a previous piece we did on Puppet, part of the reason it has been gaining momentum it is that as virtualization grows, the sheer number of tasks that need to be automated grows exponentially. He provided this quote from cfengine partner Andrew Schafer:

"The Puppet project was conceived when clouds were on the far horizon, but Puppet solves configuration problems that virtualization potentially multiplies."

Puppet can also manage any server, including remote servers. The servers could sit on Amazon's platform or other commercial cloud computing platforms. Luke Kanies, Reductive Labs' founder, provides some interesting input on the funding (Reductive Labs has received previous funding) in an interview with Matt Asay, found here. 

• cloud computing
• puppet
• cloudy saturday
• Reductive Labs

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