Understanding Puppet Forge

Puppet Forge provides a rich resource of modules from Puppet, the Puppet community, and third-party vendors to reduce the amount of code your organization must write and maintain. It also allows you to contribute to projects or publish modules, allowing others to contribute to your projects.

It is important to understand the different types of authors, endorsements, and quality scores available in Puppet Forge to understand who is developing the modules, what you can expect from them, and how to make choices regarding the 7,000+ modules.

Anyone can register and publish modules. However, the Puppet company itself publishes under the puppetlabs username, while the Vox Pupuli community organization publishes under the puppet username. This confusion originates from Puppet originally being called Puppet Labs. This should not detract from the fact the Vox Pupli community develops to very high standards and works closely with Puppet, with both organizations...