Installing Bolt

Difficulty: Basic

Time: Approximately 10 minutes

In this exercise you will install Bolt so you can get started with Bolt Tasks.

Installation Details

Bolt is packaged for the major operating systems. Please refer to the installation documentation to install Bolt for the OS you are using.

Note For this lab and for most use cases it is recommended that bolt is NOT installed as a Ruby Gem. This is because optional (but highly useful) supporting modules are only included in packages and must be installed manually when using the Gem.

Next steps

Now that you have Bolt installed you can move on to:

Setting up test nodes