Puppet is an automated engine that performs automated administrative tasks such as updating configurations, adding users, and installing packages based on user specifications. Puppet is a well known open source configuration management tool, which runs on various systems, such as Microsoft Windows, Unix, and Linux. The user describes the configuration using either Puppet's declarative language or a domain-specific language (Ruby). Puppet is model-driven and requires limited programming knowledge to use. Puppet provides a module for managing Docker containers. Puppet and Docker integration can help to achieve complex use cases with ease. Puppet manages files, packages, and services, while Docker encapsulates binaries and configuration inside a container, for deployment as an application.

One of the potential use cases of Puppet is that it can be used to provision the Docker containers required for a Jenkins build, and this can be done at scale as per the need of developers, that is...