Bolt Documentation

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.

Release Notes

What's new

Learn about the new features and enhancements in Bolt 4.0.

Getting started

If you're using Bolt for the first time, you'll need to perform some initial workspace setup tasks and learn how to use the core features.

Run Bolt

Learn how to make one-time changes to your remote targets.

Run tasks and plans

Learn how to automate your workflow with existing tasks and plans.

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