Puppet users - Oct 2014 - Newer to puppet, looking for ways to organize and group configs

Hi all, 

I've just inherited a puppet environment that is currently managing various 
linux and OS X nodes. This appears to me to be a non-traditional Puppet 
environment, as it seems the previous group of employees have built 
in-house, a web app that allows us to manage the puppet nodes by placing 
them into groups and assign groups a certain configuration of modules, I 
believe the puppet master looks to the web app at each check-in to get a 
list of modules to maintain on the node. Sadly, none of those employees are 
currently here anymore, and the documentation is lacking, to say the least. 
The web app built is getting a bit long in the tooth and is falling apart 
slowly. I'm looking for an alternative that would work with our already 
in-place puppet master and PuppetDB. 

Is this where tools such as Foreman and Puppet Dashboard come in? I feel 
like this can't be an uncommon request..I have distinct modules that I want 
to group together for various nodes, for example, we have a "base
servers"
module, which installs common applications and sets a user account, and we 
have "nginx" "apache" "postgres" modules that
would also be applied,
depending on the group the server is placed in. Similar for the OS X nodes, 
where they will have a different puppet config if the are "office"
compared
to "lab" groups. Surely there is a supported open-source tool that
does
this? 

Best,

Jake 

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