Puppet allows you to generate .dot files that show the resources and relationships present in the manifest files that you have. To generate these .dot files without actually applying the manifest files, perform the following command: puppet apply /path/to/manifest.pp –noop
Creating network diagrams with D3.js
D3.js is a JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data. It can be used for all sorts of visualizations including network diagrams. In this article we will create a network diagram with nodes and directed links between them, visualized