Managed Packages endpoints

PE-only: The Managed Packages endpoints are only available for Puppet Enterprise.

managed-packages

Returns all installed packages along with the certname of the nodes they are installed on. For the puppet managed packages provides even resource hash and manifest file.

Query fields

• certname (string): The certname of the node the package data was collected from.

• package_name (string): The name of the package. (e.g. emacs24)

• version (string): The version of the package, in the format used by the package provider. (e.g. 24.5+1-6ubuntu1)

• provider (string): The name of the provider which the package data came from; typically the name of the packaging system. (e.g. apt)

• resource (string): a SHA-1 hash of the managed resource’s type, title, and parameters, for identification.

• file (string): the manifest file in which the managed resource was declared.

• line (number): the line of the manifest on which the managed resource was declared.

• managed_version (string): The version of the package that Puppet is trying to maintain

Response format

The response is a JSON array of hashes, where each hash has the form:

{"certname":<string>,
 "package_name":<string>,
 "version":<string>,
 "provider":<string>,
 "resource":<string>,
 "file":<string>,
 "line":<integer>,
 "managed_version":<string>}

The array is unsorted by default.

Example

You can use curl to query information about managed packages:

curl -G http://localhost:8080/pdb/query/v4 --data-urlencode 'query=["from", "managed-packages", ["~", "package_name", "ssl"]]'

extended-managed-packages

Returns the same data as managed-packages but adds environment, os and os_release fields.

Query fields

Same as managed-packages plus the following

• environment (string): The environment of the node

• os (string): The operating system of the node

• os_release (string): The operating system release of the node

Response format

The response is a JSON array of hashes, where each hash has the form:

{"certname":<string>,
 "package_name":<string>,
 "version":<string>,
 "provider":<string>,
 "resource":<string>,
 "file":<string>,
 "line":<integer>,
 "managed_version":<string>,
 "environment":<string>,
 "os":<string>,
 "os_release":<string>}

The array is unsorted by default.

Example

You can use curl to query information about managed packages:

curl -G http://localhost:8080/pdb/query/v4 --data-urlencode 'query=["from", "extended-managed-packages", ["~", "package_name", "ssl"]]'

Paging

This query endpoint supports paged results via the common PuppetDB paging URL parameters. For more information, please see the documentation on paging.