Reporting is something that seems to constantly be a work in progress. We can always make our reports more comprehensive and thorough. In much the same way, the PuppetDB library and the Puppet reporting engine itself has seen a large amount of progress recently.

An entire book could be dedicated to the topic of reporting with Puppet (in fact, as mentioned earlier, one has been!). We've only touched on the beginnings of building a rich reporting environment to get you started with your reporting needs.

Using either stored reports or PuppetDB, we can fairly quickly build in-depth reports on our environment and the resources in them. We can do this in any number of languages.

There exists a good number of available off-the-shelf tools that can also be installed and help us with this. Puppetboard is a great example of one that can provide a lot of quick insights into your Puppet environment from a security standpoint. We'll touch briefly on Puppetboard in Appendix, Going Forward.

We've now...