What this book covers

Chapter 1, Setting Up Puppet for Reporting, will guide you through the simple steps to take your existing Puppet installation and make it report.

Chapter 2, Viewing Data in Dashboards, takes a look at the existing dashboards available for Puppet and how you can use them to report on your data.

Chapter 3, Introducing Report Processors, acquaints you with the engine that drives much of the Puppet reporting process—the report processor.

Chapter 4, Creating Your Own Report Processor, deals with creating your own report processor with custom e-mail alerts, MySQL storage, and integration with third-party products.

Chapter 5, Exploring PuppetDB, introduces PuppetDB, a fantastic and powerful system for report storage and analysis. In this chapter, we look at what PuppetDB is, how it's configured, and finally, how you can set it up in your own infrastructure.

Chapter 6, Retrieving Data with the PuppetDB API, explores the fantastically powerful API of PuppetDB; the API allows you to query your reports in a number of different ways. We're going to explore this API for functions that range from basic queries to advanced data integration.

Chapter 7, Writing Custom Reports with PuppetDB, deals with creating easy-to-use custom report applications.

Chapter 8, Creating Your Own Custom Dashboard, deals with creating an attractive and detailed custom dashboard using Dashing and PuppetDB.

Chapter 9, Looking Back and Looking Forward, takes a look at some of the more advanced ways in which you can use Puppet reporting to do everything from alerting to the orchestration of your infrastructure.