Hello OpenVox

Today is the day. Puppet is dead, long live OpenVox!

Background: Perforce bought Puppet in 2022, betrayed the FOSS community and changed the license. This resulted in a fork called OpenVoxProject, but old puppet releases still worked, so many admins did not care enough to switch.

Yesterday the release key for the free puppet packages expired. It is unlikely that they will renew those keys.

It's time to move on. OpenVox is a drop-in replacement. FOSS saved the day again!

When I say 'drop-in replacement' I mean it: OpenVox 7.x up to 8.11 is functionally equivalent to Puppet. The commands and configuration files are the same. You just uninstall puppet-agent, install openvox-agent, and that's it. There is absolutely no reason to pay Perforce for a license or access to software that should be open source.