**Purpose**: Puppet Bolt can be leveraged in an Ansible-esque manner to connect to and enroll devices such as Windows Servers, Linux Servers, and various workstations.  To this end, it could be used to run ad-hoc tasks or enroll devices into a centralized Puppet server. (e.g. `LAB-PUPPET-01.bunny-lab.io`)

!!! note "Assumptions"
    This deployment assumes you are deploying Puppet bolt onto the same server as Puppet.  If you have not already, follow the [Puppet Deployment](https://docs.bunny-lab.io/Servers%20%26%20Workflows/Linux/Automation/Puppet/Puppet/) documentation to do so before continuing with the Puppet Bolt deployment.

## Initial Preparation
``` sh
# Install Bolt Repository
sudo rpm -Uvh https://yum.puppet.com/puppet-tools-release-el-9.noarch.rpm
sudo yum install -y puppet-bolt

# Verify Installation
bolt --version

# Clone Puppet Bolt Repository into Bolt Directory
#sudo git clone https://git.bunny-lab.io/GitOps/Puppet-Bolt.git /etc/puppetlabs/bolt <-- Disabled for now
sudo mkdir -p /etc/puppetlabs/bolt
sudo chown -R $(whoami):$(whoami) /etc/puppetlabs/bolt
sudo chmod -R 644 /etc/puppetlabs/bolt
#sudo chmod -R u+rwx,g+rx,o+rx /etc/puppetlabs/bolt/modules/bolt <-- Disabled for now

# Initialize A New Bolt Project
cd /etc/puppetlabs/bolt
bolt project init bunny_lab
```

## Configuring Inventory
At this point, you will want to create an inventory file that you can use for tracking devices.  For now, this will have hard-coded credentials until a cleaner method is figured out.
``` yaml title="/etc/puppetlabs/bolt/inventory.yaml"
# Inventory file for Puppet Bolt
groups:
  - name: linux_servers
    targets:
      - lab-auth-01.bunny-lab.io
      - lab-auth-02.bunny-lab.io
    config:
      transport: ssh
      ssh:
        host-key-check: false
        private-key: "/etc/puppetlabs/bolt/id_rsa_OpenSSH" # (1)
        user: nicole
        native-ssh: true

  - name: windows_servers
    config:
      transport: winrm
      winrm:
        realm: BUNNY-LAB.IO
        ssl: true
        user: "BUNNY-LAB\\nicole.rappe"
        password: DomainPassword # (2)
    groups:
      - name: domain_controllers
        targets:
          - lab-dc-01.bunny-lab.io
          - lab-dc-02.bunny-lab.io
      - name: dedicated_game_servers
        targets:
          - lab-games-01.bunny-lab.io
          - lab-games-02.bunny-lab.io
          - lab-games-03.bunny-lab.io
          - lab-games-04.bunny-lab.io
          - lab-games-05.bunny-lab.io
      - name: hyperv_hosts
        targets:
          - virt-node-01.bunny-lab.io
          - bunny-node-02.bunny-lab.io
```

1.  Point the inventory file to the private key (if you use key-based authentication instead of password-based SSH authentication.)
2.  Replace this with your actual domain admin / domain password.

### Validate Bolt Inventory Works
If the inventory file is created correctly, you will see the hosts listed when you run the command below:
``` sh
cd /etc/puppetlabs/bolt
bolt inventory show
```

??? example "Example Inventory Output"
    You should expect to see output similar to the following:
    ```
    [root@lab-puppet-01 bolt-lab]# bolt inventory show
    Targets
    lab-auth-01.bunny-lab.io
    lab-auth-02.bunny-lab.io
    lab-dc-01.bunny-lab.io
    lab-dc-02.bunny-lab.io
    lab-games-01.bunny-lab.io
    lab-games-02.bunny-lab.io
    lab-games-03.bunny-lab.io
    lab-games-04.bunny-lab.io
    lab-games-05.bunny-lab.io
    virt-node-01.bunny-lab.io
    bunny-node-02.bunny-lab.io

    Inventory source
    /tmp/bolt-lab/inventory.yaml

    Target count
    11 total, 11 from inventory, 0 adhoc

    Additional information
    Use the '--targets', '--query', or '--rerun' option to view specific targets
    Use the '--detail' option to view target configuration and data
    ```

## Initializing Kerberos
If you work with Windows-based devices in a domain environment, you will need to set up Puppet so it can perform Kerberos authentication while interacting with Windows devices.  This involves a little bit of setup, but nothing too crazy.

### Install Krb5
We need to install the necessary software on the puppet server to allow Kerberos authentication to occur.
=== "Rocky, CentOS, RHEL, Fedora"

    ``` sh
    sudo yum install krb5-workstation
    ```
        
=== "Debian, Ubuntu"

    ``` sh
    sudo apt-get install krb5-user
    ```

=== "SUSE"

    ``` sh
    sudo zypper install krb5-client
    ```