bolt-demo

A quick bolt demo to check the the classroom machines

What you need to do

• Install bolt on the student0 machine sudo yum install puppet-bolt --nogpgcheck -y
• Follow the instructions on https://puppet.com/docs/bolt/latest/getting_started_with_bolt.html to setup a bolt project.
• Copy the inventory.yaml into a text editor
  • Do a find and replace to update the hostnames with the classroom name
  • Add in the Windows login details.
  • Copy the file into the inventory.yaml file of the Bolt project. The student0 machines are intentionaly left out

Linux machines

Check the linux machines are all up bolt command run uptime --targets linux

Windows machines

Check the windows machines are up bolt command run 'choco --version' --targets windows

Get the classroom machines through the first few lessons.

There may be a time when you just need to get all the machines connected to the PE server.

Linux

• To install Bolt on all the Linux machines run bolt command run 'yum install puppet-bolt --nogpgcheck -y' --targets linux
• To install the Puppet agent on all the Linux machines first make the remote script executable bolt command run 'chmod +x /home/centos/install_pe_agent.sh' --targets linux
• Then install it bolt command run '/home/centos/install_pe_agent.sh' --targets linux

Windows

• To install Bolt on all the Windows machines bolt command run 'choco install puppet-bolt' --targets windows
• To install the Puppet agent bolt command run 'cd ..; ./install_pe_agent.ps1' --targets windows