Bolt can be installed via a number of methods, all described at https://puppet.com/docs/bolt/0.x/bolt_installing.html:
- A downloadable package from http://downloads.puppet.com/
- A public Chocolatey package
- OSX Homebrew installation
- Linux native package repositories
- Rubygems
Bolt works remotely over standard connection protocols. Try installing it and using it on your workstation, instead of the Puppet Master, during this lesson.
On my MacBook, I'll install Bolt using Homebrew:
rary at Ryans-MacBook-Pro in ~/workspace/packt
$ brew cask install puppetlabs/puppet/puppet-bolt
==> Tapping puppetlabs/puppet
Cloning into '/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/puppetlabs/homebrew-puppet'...
remote: Counting objects: 15, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (14/14), done.
remote: Total 15 (delta 1), reused 8 (delta 1), pack-reused 0
Unpacking objects: 100% (15/15), done.
Tapped 3 casks (49 files, 54.9KB).
==> Satisfying dependencies
==> Downloading https://downloads.puppet.com/mac/puppet5/10.13/x86_64/puppet-bolt-0.22.0-1.osx10.13.dmg
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> Verifying SHA-256 checksum for Cask 'puppet-bolt'.
==> Installing Cask puppet-bolt
==> Running installer for puppet-bolt; your password may be necessary.
==> Package installers may write to any location; options such as --appdir are ignored.
Password:
installer: Package name is puppet-bolt
installer: Installing at base path /
installer: The install was successful.
puppet-bolt was successfully installed!
I'll then close my Terminal, and reopen it and verify that the bolt command is in my path:
$ bolt
Usage: bolt <subcommand> <action> [options]
Available subcommands:
bolt command run <command> Run a command remotely
bolt file upload <src> <dest> Upload a local file
bolt script run <script> Upload a local script and run it remotely
bolt task show Show list of available tasks
bolt task show <task> Show documentation for task
bolt task run <task> [params] Run a Puppet task
bolt plan show Show list of available plans
bolt plan show <plan> Show details for plan
bolt plan run <plan> [params] Run a Puppet task plan
bolt puppetfile install Install modules from a Puppetfile into a Boltdir
Run `bolt <subcommand> --help` to view specific examples.