Lab – creating and using a Bolt project

In this lab, we will create a Bolt project. We will create a task that runs the facter command on a Windows and Linux node.

The steps are as follows:

• Create a Bolt project with the following line of code:

  bolt project init packtlab

• Create an inventory.yaml file by performing a lookup of Windows and Linux clients from the PECDM Bolt project and copying the output:

  bolt inventory show --targets agent_nodes --detail
  bolt inventory show --targets windows_agent_nodes --detail

• Write a task to cover both Windows and Linux that runs the facter command, taking a single argument if only a single fact should be returned.
• Write a plan that uses run_command to run facter and return the results of the plan.
• Run the task and plan on your Windows and Linux clients.
• You can find example solutions at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Puppet-8-for-DevOps-Engineers/tree/main/ch12.