How to Install Bolt on NetBSD

Bolt is an open source orchestration tool that simplifies the automation of tasks across a wide range of systems and applications. It enables system administrators and DevOps engineers to manage multi-node deployments, roll out updates and patches, and automate tasks through a simple command-line interface.

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Bolt on NetBSD.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, make sure:

• You have root access to the NetBSD system.
• You have internet connectivity on the system.

Step 1: Install Puppet Repository Configuration

Bolt is developed and maintained by Puppet. Therefore, we need to add the Puppet repository configuration to the NetBSD package manager.

Execute the following command as the root user:

pkg_add https://apt.puppet.com/puppet7-release-netbsd-9.pkg

This command will download and install the Puppet repository configuration package for NetBSD.

Step 2: Install Bolt

After installing the Puppet repository configuration, we can now install Bolt using the package manager.

Execute the following command as the root user:

pkg_add bolt

The package manager will download and install Bolt and its dependencies.

Step 3: Verify Bolt Installation

To verify that Bolt is installed correctly on your system, run the following command:

bolt --version

This command should output the version of Bolt that you installed.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we demonstrated how to install Bolt on NetBSD. Once installed, you can use Bolt to automate a wide range of tasks across your systems and applications. For more information on using and configuring Bolt, refer to the official documentation from Puppet.