PE workflows for Bolt users

Understand the differences between PE and Bolt commands and workflows before you start running tasks and plans in PE.

Connecting to nodes

You must connect PE to each node you want to run tasks on or include in a plan. See Add nodes to the inventory for instructions on adding agent or agentless nodes to your inventory.

Installing tasks and plans

In PE, as in Bolt, you use the mod command to download modules. But instead of running the bolt puppetfile install command to install them, you trigger Code Manager and deploy code using the puppet code deploy command. See Trigger Code Manager on the command line.

Running tasks and plans

PE does not recognize the bolt command for running tasks and plans. Instead, use the puppet task run and puppet plan run commands, or use the console.

To run tasks or plans from the command line, see:

• Run tasks from the command line
• Run plans from the command line

To run tasks or plans from the console, see:

• Run tasks from the console
• Run plans from the console

Limitations in PE

Not everything in Bolt works in PE. For example, many pre-installed Bolt modules are not included in PE and many plan functions do not work, such as file::exists and set_feature. See Plans in PE versus Bolt plans.