Case Study: Fervid achieves federal compliance and rapid, error-free provisioning with Puppet Enterprise

Fervid achieves federal compliance by delivering a solution built on Puppet Enterprise

Fervid, a DevSecOps consulting firm serving public‑sector clients, was hired to modernize and consolidate the U.S. Forest Service’s data centers and retire legacy infrastructure. The team faced slow, manual, siloed provisioning that took over a month, inconsistent configurations, unreported policy exceptions, and no turnkey solution for hardening Microsoft Windows Server to federal standards—creating errors and security vulnerabilities that jeopardized compliance.

Fervid built a solution on Puppet Enterprise, creating a Windows‑hardening module aligned with STIG and using Puppet Bolt to remediate damaged repositories and speed Kubernetes upgrades. The result: merged data centers, provisioning shortened from weeks to minutes, environment baseline errors reduced to zero, 1,000+ servers fixed in five minutes, Kubernetes upgrades cut to four hours, faster, more reliable deployments, and demonstrable federal compliance to support clients’ Authorities to Operate.

Fervid

Bryan Belanger

Principal Consultant