What?
- An API to expose bolt's SSH and WinRM transports
- A thin ruby webserver (Puma) wrapper around the bolt executor
- A PE service
Decisions
"Why isn't bolt-server a clojure service managed by Orchestrator?"
- We wanted to be able to use Bolt classes directly
- We didn't want to rewrite any parts of Bolt
Decisions
"Why a webserver instead of sockets?"
- Poor library support in ruby for sockets
- Difficult for other teams to adopt
Why?
- Enable the PE Console to run agentless tasks - part of the Road to Automation story
- Generalize for other tools to use
Other Resources
- Install from http://builds.puppetlabs.lan/pe-bolt-server/
- Docs at
bolt/developer-docs - Available in Johnson builds
Demo
