bolt is open source under the Apache-2.0 licence. There is no licence fee and no seat count — you can self-host it or, where the project offers one, pay a vendor for a managed version instead.

What is bolt written in?

bolt is primarily written in Ruby. Its source is publicly available at https://github.com/puppetlabs/bolt, and it has 558 GitHub stars.

bolt: Open Source Orchestration & Scheduling

bolt is a free, open source orchestration & scheduling project written in Ruby and released under Apache-2.0. It has 558 GitHub stars, 224 forks and 101 open issues, and was last pushed 7 days ago. On this registry it ranks #121 of 123 tracked projects in Orchestration & Scheduling, with 5 head-to-head comparisons available.

Bolt is an open source orchestration tool that automates the manual work it takes to maintain your infrastructure. Use Bolt to automate tasks that you perform on an as-needed basis or as part of a greater orchestration workflow. For example, you can use Bolt to patch and update systems, troubleshoot servers, deploy applications, or stop and restart services. Bolt can be installed on your local workstation and connects directly to remote targets with SSH or WinRM, so you are not required to install any agent software.

Bring order to the chaos with orchestration

Run simple plans to rid yourself of the headaches of orchestrating complex workflows. Create and share Bolt plans to easily expand across your application stack.

Use what you have to automate simple tasks or complex workflows

Get going with your existing scripts and plans, including YAML, PowerShell, Bash, Python or Ruby, or reuse content from the Puppet Forge.

Get up and running with Bolt even faster

Speed up your Bolt knowledge with a step-by-step introduction to basic Bolt functionality with our getting started guide and self-paced training.

More information and documentation is available on the Bolt website.

Supported platforms

Bolt can be installed on Linux, Windows, and macOS. For complete installation details, see the installation docs.

For alternate installation methods and running from source code, see our contributing guidelines.

Getting help

Join #bolt on the Puppet Community slack to chat with Bolt developers and the community.

Contributing

We welcome error reports and pull requests to Bolt. See our contributing guidelines for how to help.

Kudos

Thank you to Marcin Bunsch for allowing Puppet to use the bolt gem name.

License

Bolt is available as open source under the terms of the Apache 2.0 license.