2010 was a landmark year for Puppet Labs. We were able to grow and offer more than we ever thought possible. As we look ahead to our next release, our growing user group community, and various other projects, we are excited to keep the momentum going. For a quick review of the year, we’ve compiled a timeline of 2010.

January: We started the year with seven employees.

March: The company changed names from Reductive Labs to Puppet Labs.

April: We released Puppet Dashboard V1.0, and won “Judge’s Choice” at Under the Radar.

May: Puppet Camp Europe in Ghent, Belgium (not to be confused with the upcoming Puppet Camp Europe in Amsterdam) was a rousing success!
We were proud to release Puppet Forge.

July: We received $5 million in Series B funding, and released Puppet 2.6.

September: We received our second award of the year: an Infoworld Bossie for the best open source networking software. We also released Puppet 2.6.1.

October: Puppet Camp North America in San Francisco was the perfect setting to announce our acquisition of the Marionette Collective. We also won “Best Open Source Configuration Management Software” in Linux Journal’s “Reader’s Choice” awards. And, we released Puppet 2.6.2.

November: The first hints of Puppetcasts appeared—definitely look out for more tips and tricks of the trade in 2011. We released Puppet 2.6.3, and Kenny Van Zant joined our Board of Directors.

December: We moved into the new office, released MCollective 1.0 (as well as MCollective 1.1.0, and Puppet 2.6.4) and ended the year with 28 employees—a whopping 300% increase.

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