At the very basic core of Puppet Bolt, we issue remote commands, send scripts, and run scripts. Bolt provides three simple commands to do just that: bolt command run, bolt file upload, and bolt script run. To test our SSH key from earlier, let's run a simple command using bolt command run:
rary at Ryans-MacBook-Pro-3 in ~/workspace/packt/bolt$ bolt command run "echo 'Hello World'" --nodes puppetserver --no-host-key-checkStarted on puppetserver.puppet.net...Finished on puppetserver.puppet.net: STDOUT: Hello WorldSuccessful on 1 node: pe-puppet-master.puppet.netRan on 1 node in 0.40 seconds
For simple one-off tasks, running the bolt command can be a great way to inspect a system. When we have a larger list of instructions to ...
