Discovering packages

We can inspect packages as a whole in Puppet Discovery. When you select packages from the dashboard, you'll be taken to a page that lists all packages, their version, package manager, and, most importantly, the number of instances they're running on. We can use this information to see if software has been universally installed on our infrastructure, or to track versioning across infrastructure. This information is particularly helpful in security remediation when attempting to determine vulnerable systems in the infrastructure:

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