Growth, in terms of customers and revenue, appears to be significant. About 34,000 companies use Puppet’s software to automate data center operations, with 6,000 added last year, Kanies said. The company is approaching $100 million in annual sales and is expanding its headquarters in Portland, Ore. In January, it secured $22 million in financing from Silicon Valley Bank to fuel further expansion.
And then a stray container momentum/penetration number from Forrester:
Stroud sees promise in Puppet’s container support, despite his observation that only about 8% of companies are using containers for production workloads. “It gives current Puppetized work the ability to be containerized,” he said.
