G2 Vendor Directory

Red Hat Smart Management vs. Puppet Enterprise

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricRed Hat Smart Management

by Red Hat

Puppet Enterprise

by Perforce

Overall rating4.94.2
Review count3343
Ease of use9.67.7
Ease of setup9.87.7
Quality of support9.78.7
Meets requirements9.48.5
NPS93.7539.534884
Small Business18.2%4.8%
Mid-Market72.7%35.7%
Enterprise9.1%59.5%
Total page views73233
Total LLM citations23295

Red Hat Smart Management

Red Hat Smart Management combines the flexible and powerful infrastructure management capabilities of Red Hat Satellite with the simplicity of cloud management services for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It helps you more securely manage any environment supported by Red Hat Enterprise Linux—from physical machines to hybrid multiclouds.

Pros

    Puppet Enterprise

    Perforce Puppet is an enterprise platform for secure infrastructure automation and governance. Built for platform, DevOps, and security teams, it enables organizations to define and enforce desired state across infrastructure, automate remediation, and scale with confidence. With policy-driven automation and support for both agent-based and agentless workflows, Puppet reduces manual effort while supporting continuous compliance across complex environments.

    Pros