Puppet users - Oct 2014 - Puppet, inventory, and single sources of truth.

So I've been using puppet for a long time, and the one thing I've
never solved to my satisfaction is a way to have a single source of
truth that acts as both instructions to puppet *and* as a system
inventory that I can use for general opertaions (i.e. "how many
tomcat hosts do we have?").

When Hiera came along I shifted to that, believing that it was the
right solution here, and I've managed to hack together something
that works, but it's pretty inelegant.  The reason is that to get a
proper inventory out of hiera requires collating all the hiera data
from the point of view of each host, so that all the hierarchical
processing is correct, and then mushing all those results together.
I've got a system to do that, but it's pretty hacky.

Is there some better way of combining a general inventory system and
puppet?  Is this a Puppet Enterprise sort of thing?

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