Beyond Puppet 4.x

The future of Puppet is probably going to be determined by its platform changes: on one side, the migration of server and network code to its Clojure platform, and on the other, the migration of client tooling and hot-spots to C++.

Consolidating Clojure implementations will give robustness, better performance, and maintainability to server code. With a micro services approach, each component will be developed in the stack that is most suitable for its specific mission. In Puppet Conf 2015, Peter Heune presented a prototype of an implementation of a compiler compatible with Puppet 4 written in C++. In the demoed examples, new implementation compiled pure Puppet code (Ruby-defined types and functions are not supported yet), orders of magnitude faster than the Ruby one, and as he showed, it also did very good memory management.

And it does just one very specific task, it's just a compiler, it converts Puppet code in to a catalog that can be cached, directly applied by...