Puppet's open source components have had a long journey from a loose collection of projects to a versioned, coordinated platform. Where are we now and what's coming up in the future? In this talk, I'll review some history — ancient and modern — around open source Puppet, describe the current state of play for for the Puppet 5 Platform, and provide some roadmap guidance for the next six to twelve months. Attendees will leave with a better understanding of the relationship between Puppet Platform and Puppet Enterprise, some technical details of recent feature developments they may have missed, and a few heartwarming anecdotes.