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Installing Bolt on NixOS

This tutorial will guide you through the steps to install Bolt from https://puppet.com/products/bolt on the latest version of NixOS.

Step 1 - Installing Bolt

1. Open a terminal window on your NixOS machine.
2. Run the following command to install Bolt:

sudo nix-env -i bolt

This will install Bolt and all its dependencies on your system.

Step 2 - Verifying Bolt Installation

1. Run the following command to verify that Bolt is installed:

bolt --version

This should display the version of Bolt that you have installed on your system.

2. Run the following command to verify that the Bolt inventory file is present:

ls -l /etc/puppetlabs/bolt

You should see a file named inventory.yaml.

Step 3 - Configuring Bolt

1. To configure Bolt, you need to create a ~/.puppetlabs/bolt/bolt.yaml file with the following contents:

---
modulepath: /etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/production/modules:/etc/puppetlabs/code/modules

2. You also need to create an inventory file at /etc/puppetlabs/bolt/inventory.yaml. You can use the following example as a template:

---
nodes:
  - name: localhost
    config:
      transport: local

Step 4 - Running Bolt

1. To run Bolt, you can use the following command:

bolt command run <command> --nodes localhost

Replace <command> with the command you want to run.

2. You can also use Bolt to run tasks by using the following command:

bolt task run <task_name> --nodes localhost

Replace <task_name> with the name of the task you want to run.

Conclusion

Congratulations, you have successfully installed Bolt on NixOS! You can now use Bolt to manage your systems using the command line.

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