PuppetDB and reporting
We briefly touched on what PuppetDB was in Chapter 1, Puppet as a Security Tool. It is a backend database engine that stores information on your Puppet environment.
We can query this information directly to see the current status of a host, get information on its current resources, and more. Additionally, it contains a complete set of reports if configured to do so.
PuppetDB contains a very rich API allowing us to use RESTful API calls via HTTP to retrieve information.
Note
REST, which is shorthand for Representational State Transfer, is a method of laying out an API using representations of a given resource. In this case, the resources will be information about Puppet. It makes querying and modifying information using HTTP ...
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