Welcome to the *first ever* Bolt developer update! This is a new experiment we're trying to communicate more directly about what we're actively working on and what we're thinking about in the near term.
This week, we released Bolt 1.28.0. The feature I want to highlight is the new Vault plugin. This plugin allows you to query inventory information (such as passwords) from HashiCorp Vault <https://www.vaultproject.io>. As an example, this inventory snippet retrieves a private key from Vault and uses it to connect to host.example.com. targets: - host.example.com config: ssh: user: root private-key: key-data: _plugin: vault server_url: http://127.0.0.1:8200 auth: method: userpass user: bolt pass: bolt path: secrets/bolt field: private-key version: 2 Try out the plugin and let us know what you think. *Up next* Coming down the pipe, Alex posted a specification <https://github.com/puppetlabs/bolt/issues/1125> for some refinements to the Target/inventory API. Our aim with that is to standardize the operations you can use within a plan to dynamically create, modify, and regroup targets. We've also started discussing extensions to the apply_prep() function to make it possible to use custom agent install methods and alternate fact sources. Please check out the current state of that proposal <https://github.com/puppetlabs/bolt/issues/1123> and give feedback. Speaking of feedback, please respond on this thread or in #bolt on Slack to let us know what you think of this newsletter format. You can also view this post on the web <https://puppetlabs.github.io/bolt/2019-08-07-vault-target-api-apply-prep>. Thanks! The Bolt Team -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CANa5_qJ95Fqtpf6_h%3DB12Kgr7PNUuprqavrKbft8iddkq3qG_w%40mail.gmail.com.
