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BrandonPuppet Bolt
Continuous DeploymentWhat is Puppet Bolt?
It is an open source orchestration tool that automates the manual work it takes to maintain your infrastructure. Use it to automate tasks that you perform on an as-needed basis or as part of a greater orchestration workflow.
Puppet Bolt is a tool in the Continuous Deployment category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Prebuilt tasksAutomate deploymentsOpen sourceAgent-less or agent-basedReuse existing scriptsRuby-supportPython-supportBash-supportPowershell-supportWorkflow orchestration
Puppet Bolt Pros & Cons
Pros of Puppet Bolt
- ✓Simple
- ✓Agentless
- ✓Easy to Install
- ✓Powerful
Cons of Puppet Bolt
No cons listed yet.
Puppet Bolt Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Puppet Bolt?
Ansible
Ansible is an IT automation tool. It can configure systems, deploy software, and orchestrate more advanced IT tasks such as continuous deployments or zero downtime rolling updates. Ansible’s goals are foremost those of simplicity and maximum ease of use.
Terraform
With Terraform, you describe your complete infrastructure as code, even as it spans multiple service providers. Your servers may come from AWS, your DNS may come from CloudFlare, and your database may come from Heroku. Terraform will build all these resources across all these providers in parallel.
Dotenv
It is a zero-dependency module that loads environment variables from a .env file into process.env. Storing configuration in the environment separate from code is based on The Twelve-Factor App methodology.
