Puppet Discovery

Puppet Discovery is a new product by Puppet. Puppet Discovery is a standalone containerized application built to discover information about containers and virtual machines in real-time. This platform is designed to have an inventory of all IT resources, discover details about each resource, and take action on those machines. Although still in the early phases of development, I expect to see tighter integration between Discovery, Puppet Tasks, and the greater Puppet ecosystem.

Note

Puppet Discovery is generally safe to install and use to inspect a production-level system. Puppet Discovery does do an active scan of all sources, and may trigger security warnings in your organization. Make sure that you coordinate with a security team if you decide to use Puppet Discovery against corporate resources.

In this section, we'll be installing Puppet Discovery and viewing what is available to us. We'll start by installing the system, followed by adding an IP CIDR block of our infrastructure...