Report: API Endpoints in Puppet

API Endpoints in Puppet

by Rajat Agrawal

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Keys: API, Endpoints, Puppet

Meta: In this blog, we will learn about API Endpoints in Puppet.

API Endpoints in Puppet

Introduction📃
API Endpoints ✅
v1 Metrics Endpoint 🔄
GET /metrics/v1/mbeans
POST /metrics/v1/mbeans
v2 (Jolokia) Metrics Endpoint 🔄
GET /metrics/v2/
POST /metrics/v2/<OPERATION>
Services Endpoint 🔄
GET /status/v1/services
Query Parameters
Response
Simple Endpoint 🔄
GET /status/v1/simple
Response
Environment Cache Endpoint 🔄
DELETE /puppet-admin-api/v1/environment-cache

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Query Parameters
Response
JRuby Pool Endpoint 🔄
DELETE /puppet-admin-api/v1/jruby-pool
Response
Environment Classes and Modules Endpoint 🔄
GET /puppet/v3/environment_classes?environment=:environment
Query Parameters
GET /puppet/v3/environment_modules
Static File Content Endpoint 🔄
GET /puppet/v3/static_file_content/<FILE-PATH>
Supported HTTP Method
Query Parameters
Response
Frequently Asked Questions
What is DevOps?
What is Puppet?
Is Puppet a CI/CD tool?
What is API?
What is API Endpoint?
Conclusion

Introduction📃
Puppet is a server configuration management program used to configure,
deploy, and manage servers. It specifies each host's unique configuration and
continually verifies that the necessary configuration is in place and hasn't been
changed on the host.

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It gives you control over all of your configured computers, so a centralized

modification instantly propagates to everyone.

In this blog, we will discuss some API Endpoints in Puppet. But before
discussing the API Endpoints in puppet, first, let's know what an API Endpoint
is.

API Endpoints ✅
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An Endpoint is one end of a communication channel. Whenever an API interacts
with another system/software, the touchpoint of this communication is the
Endpoint. The URL/URI is considered an endpoint for API. You can refer to this
blog to learn more about API and endpoints.

Let's discuss some API Endpoints in Puppet.

v1 Metrics Endpoint 🔄
The v1 metrics endpoint is introduced in puppet in the year 2016. Now it is
deprecated but still accessible.
The different HTTP request methods for the above metrics are:-

GET /metrics/v1/mbeans

The Endpoint will display the list of all the available MBeans.

Response Keys:
💢Key: Name of a valid MBean.
💢Value: URI to use while requesting MBean's attributes.

POST /metrics/v1/mbeans

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The POST endpoint will retrieve requested MBean metrics.

You need to send the JSON object in the request body.

Response Keys:
The response is always a JSON but also depends on the request format:-

👉Requests with a JSON object return a JSON object.

👉Requests with a JSON array return a JSON array.
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👉Requests with a JSON string return a JSON object.

v2 (Jolokia) Metrics Endpoint 🔄

The v2 metrics endpoint uses the Jolokia library. Refer to this documentation of
Jolokia if you want to learn about Jolokia.

The different HTTP request methods for the above metrics are:-

GET /metrics/v2/

The Endpoint will return a JSON object upon successful request.

POST /metrics/v2/<OPERATION>

You can submit a POST request with the query as a JSON document in the POST
body.

Services Endpoint 🔄
The services endpoint provides information about all the services running on
the Puppet Server.

Note: Only the GET HTTP request method is supported in this Endpoint.

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GET /status/v1/services

For this Endpoint, the only supported format is JSON.

Query Parameters

The Query parameter supported is:-

level: The response includes status information for all registered services at
the required level of detail.
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The valid values for the query are:-
⭐critical: It will return the minimum amount of status information for each

service.
⭐info: It will return more info than the critical level for each service.

⭐debug: This level returns service status data that is sufficiently detailed to be

useful for troubleshooting issues with the puppet server process.

Response

A response from the services endpoint represents each service that the Status
service is aware of. The state value for each service is one of the following:-
⭐running: Returns only if all services are running.

⭐error: Returns if any service reports an error.

⭐starting: Returns if any service reports that it is starting, and no service

reports an error or stopping.

⭐stopping: Returns if any service reports that it is stopping and no service

reports an error.
⭐unknown: Returns if any service reports an unknown state and no services

report an error.

Simple Endpoint 🔄

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The simple Endpoint is to give a simple indication of whether Puppet Server is

running on a server.

Note: Only the GET HTTP request method is supported in this Endpoint.

GET /status/v1/simple

For this Endpoint, the only supported format is Plain Text, and there are no
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Response

The response of this Endpoint consists of a single word describing Puppet

Server's status:-
⭐running: Returns only if all services are running.

⭐error: Returns if any service reports an error.

⭐unknown: Returns if any service reports an unknown state and no services

report an error.

Environment Cache Endpoint 🔄

Puppet Server caches the information it loads from the disc for each
environment when using directory environments. It provides an endpoint for
clearing this cache:-

DELETE /puppet-admin-api/v1/environment-cache

Make an HTTP request to this Endpoint to trigger a complete invalidation of the

data in this cache.

Query Parameters

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This Endpoint has an optional query parameter, environment, whose value may
be set to the name of a specific Puppet environment.

Response

This Endpoint will return an HTTP 204: No Content as a response upon

successful request. The response body will be empty.

JRuby Pool Endpoint 🔄

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A pool of JRuby instances is available on Puppet Server, which also has an API
endpoint for flushing it:-

DELETE /puppet-admin-api/v1/jruby-pool

This Endpoint will remove all of the current JRuby interpreters from the pool,
and the JVM's garbage collector will be able to free up the RAM that they were
using.

Response

This Endpoint will return an HTTP 204: No Content as a response upon

successful request. The response body will be empty.

Environment Classes and Modules Endpoint 🔄

The environment classes API covers different things, returns new or different
information, and deletes some information.

GET /puppet/v3/environment_classes?environment=:environment

For this Endpoint, the only supported format is JSON.

Query Parameters

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Provide one parameter to the GET request:-

⭐environment: Only the classes and parameter data relevant to the given

environment will be returned for the call.

The environment modules API will return information about the modules
installed for the requested environment.

GET /puppet/v3/environment_modules
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For this Endpoint, the only supported format is JSON.

Static File Content Endpoint 🔄

The static file content endpoint outputs the contents of a particular version of a
file resource that has a source attribute with a puppet:/// URI value. It does this
by returning the standard output of a code-content-command script.

GET /puppet/v3/static_file_content/<FILE-PATH>

Supported HTTP Method

GET

Query Parameters

There are two must-pass parameters in the GET request.

⭐code_id: a special string the catalog provides to specify the file version to

return.
⭐environment: The environment that contains the desired file.

Response

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This Endpoint returns an HTTP 200 response code and application/octet-

stream Content-Type header and the contents of the specified file's requested
version in the response body upon a successful request.
But if the request is unsuccessful, it returns an error response code with a
text/plain Content-Type header:
👉400: It will be returned when any of the parameters are not provided.
👉403: It will be returned when requesting a file that is not within a module's
files or tasks directory.
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👉500: It will be returned when a requested file or version is not present in a

repository or when code-content-command is not configured on the server.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is DevOps?

DevOps is a set of cultural concepts, processes, and tools that improves an

organization's capacity to provide applications and services at a high rate.

What is Puppet?

Puppet is a server configuration management program that may be used to

configure, deploy, and manage servers.

Is Puppet a CI/CD tool?

Yes, puppet is a true CI/CD solution for modern development.

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What is API?

API stands for Application Programming Interface. It is a set of definitions and

protocols for creating and integrating software applications.

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What is API Endpoint?

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An Endpoint is one end of a communication channel. Whenever an API interacts
with another system/software, the touchpoint of this communication is the
Endpoint.

Conclusion
In this article, we have extensively discussed different API Endpoints in Puppet.
1 I hope you enjoyed reading this article on API Endpoints in Puppet.
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By: Rajat Agrawal

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