Full Stack Journey 031: Using Bolt For Task Automation With Yasmin Rajabi

In Episode 31 of the Full Stack Journey, Yasmin Rajabi (@yasminnx13 on Twitter) joins Scott to talk about Bolt, a new open source orchestration/automation tool being created by the folks at Puppet.

Bolt has been around for about two years, and released version 1.0 last October.

This episode’s conversation takes Scott and Yasmin through a variety of topics, including:

  • What is Bolt?
  • How is Bolt different from (and similar to) configuration management tools like Puppet?
  • How is Bolt different from (and similar to) other products/projects out there?
  • What things are folks are doing with Bolt?
  • What isn’t Bolt suited for?
  • How would folks get started using Bolt?

Check the Show Links below for links to resources mentioned during the show.

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Show Links:

Step-by-step exercises using Puppet Tasks with Bolt

Puppet Slack Community

Getting started by installing Bolt

Yasmin Rajabi on Twitter

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