How to Install Bolt on macOS

Bolt is a tool for automation and orchestration you can use to centrally administer virtually any system on your network. In this tutorial, we'll guide you through the process of installing Bolt on a macOS machine.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, ensure that your macOS machine meets the following requirements:

• You have administrative rights.
• The machine has a stable internet connection.
• A terminal application is installed.

Step 1: Download Homebrew

Homebrew is a package manager that makes it easy to install software packages on macOS. To download and install Homebrew, open the terminal app and run the following command:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

Step 2: Update Homebrew

Once Homebrew has been installed, update it to ensure that you are using the latest version. To do this, run the following command:

brew update

Step 3: Install Bolt

Now that you have Homebrew installed and updated, you can install Bolt. To do this, run the following command:

brew install puppet-bolt

And that's it! Bolt is now successfully installed on your macOS machine.

Step 4: Verify Bolt installation

To make sure that Bolt was installed correctly, you can run the following command to check the version number:

bolt --version

This command should output something like:

Bolt 3.26.1

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we walked you through the steps to install Bolt on a macOS machine using Homebrew. Bolt is now installed on your machine and ready to be used for automation and orchestration.