The salt minion daemon, receives commands from a remote salt master. Optionsh, help print a usage message briefly summarizing these commandline options. My goal here is to achieve 100% automation, as soon as i install the salt minion on a fresh debian linux. This particular package provides the worker agent for salt. We mostly work with ubuntu and debian based systems, so while the steps to upgrade are the same on other linux systems the exact commands will differ. Suse linux enterprise server 12 service pack 2 sles 12 sp2 suse enterprise storage 4. Open the salt minion configuration with sudo privileges next. Salt master is the main control system used to send commands to salt minion and their configuration. Description of issuequestion sudo yum install saltminion fails error. In saltstack the state declaration to install a package through the default package manager is straight forward. Changing name of saltminion my sys admin nightmare. With the release of suse manager 3 a new repository setup has been created. Epelx8 extra packages for enterprise linux 7 x86_64. This guide will use salt beacons to notify the salt master of changes to minions, and salt reactors to react to those changes before you begin.
Salt is a new approach to infrastructure management built on a dynamic communication bus. It relies on an agent called the salt minion running on the cumulus linux switch to communicate with a central server, called the salt master. That was the biggest difference between saltstack and the other guys. Every action performed by salt, such as applying a highstate or restarting a minion, generates an event. Salt master is part of the suse manager infrastructure set up for you by default uses srv salt for userbased content supported salt minions. After the epel release package has been installed, we will install the saltminion package with the following command and the dependencies should. The salt minion receives commands from the central salt master and replies with the results of said commands. Between the remote execution system, and state management salt addresses the backbone of cloud and data center management. How to install and configure salt master and minion. Install the package salt minion on all salt minions after importing repository key and adding the repo.
If you are setting up your environment for the first time, you should install a salt master on a dedicated management server or vm, and then install a salt minion on each system that you want to manage using salt. Client component for salt, a parallel remote execution system. Download and install the latest release of saltstack. The remote execution capabilities allow administrators to run commands on various machines in parallel with a flexible targeting system. By default a salt minion will try to connect to the dns name salt.
This problem can be faced when the os template you are deploying was packaged years earlier with an older salt minion while the salt master has been. Salt minion download for linux apk, deb, rpm download salt minion linux packages for alpine, alt linux, centos, debian, fedora, opensuse, ubuntu. Beacons emit events for non salt processes, such as system state changes or file changes. Exercise 1, chapter 10 configuring a salt master and minion. Let us learn the concept of salt proxy minion using a live working environment. To configure a salt master and minion use commands similar to these.
Installing an older salt master or minion for compatibility if your salt minion version is too far removed from the salt master version, you may find yourself with unexplained errors. Salt is a pythonbased configuration management platform designed to control a number of slave servers called minions in salt terminology from a single master server. Lastly, we need to download a configuration for launchctl and set the system to treat salt minion as a daemon so that it starts automatically. Uncomment and edit the following parameters in etc salt minion. Suse linux enterprise server 11 sp3, sp4 all architectures suse linux enterprise server 12 ga, sp1, sp2, etc. Salt, or saltstack, is a remote execution tool and configuration management system, based on the communitysourced salt platform.
This post gives you instructions to download and install the latest release of saltstack 2016. This document 7018591 is provided subject to the disclaimer at the end of this document. Saltminion download for linux apk, deb, rpm download salt minion linux packages for alpine, alt linux, centos, debian, fedora, opensuse, ubuntu. Keep critical systems properly configured to increase. I want to execute a certain script in all the salt minions connected from salt master and provide me the exit status from the salt minions so that i can determine the salt states would be declared pass or fail. The official repository contains the most uptodate. Installing the microsoft odbc driver for sql server on debian. Use the saltstack official yum repo to install the latest salt master program. Configuring saltstack on cumulus linux cumulus networks. Execute the below command to import the saltstack 2016. Minion provides premeir addon management for games such as world of warcraft and the elder scrolls online. Installing and configuring the salt minion salt cookbook. Install find new addons and install them in a snap.
We will also demonstrate how to install the salt minion daemon on other computers in order to manage them with salt. Otherwise the minion configuration file will need to be edited, edit the configuration option master to point to the dns name or the ip of the salt master. This section contains instructions to install salt. It can also be used in standalone mode to apply states to a machine without a salt master by using c. For the live environment, we chose a linux system for both the master and the proxy minion. Saltstack allows for the switch to pull configurations from the salt master similar to puppet or to push configurations from the salt master similar to ansible. From command prompt run python \python27\scripts\ salt minion c c. Getting started with salt basic installation and setup linode. Bootstrap works across many platforms and is the easiest way to get started. Many of the standard salt modules have been ported to work on windows and many of the salt states currently work on windows as well. Salt open is tested and packaged to run on centos, debian, rhel, ubuntu, windows. Salt is a powerful remote execution manager that can be used to administer servers in a fast and efficient way. Ok now back to the salt master, we can display the custom grains. Linux master with minion, linux minion, and win7 minion.
Apr 24, 2020 salt is a new approach to infrastructure management built on a dynamic communication bus. The installation documentation for salt lists two ways of obtaining the packages required by salt use the official saltstack repository. Security we use saltstack to enforce cis compliance through automated, orchestrated, and audited patching and configuration across our windows and linux infrastructure. The install script is intended to be run on the salt master and all minion. Saltstack is the best choice because its proactive and it creates selfhealing systems. Setup salt minion in a python3 virtual environment on a.
The location of the salt configuration directory, this directory contains the configuration files for salt master and minions. To make the new custom grains take effect, the salt minion service must be restarted after editing the minion file. To help, weve written up this howto guide for easily and safely upgrading your master and minions. Saltstack is an automation and orchestration product. Make sure to watch the saltstack master installation video before following this. You must connect windows salt minions to a salt master on a supported operating system to control your salt minions. For the moment there is no a normal way to upgrade salt minions from the salt master and not to lose communication between them but you can create a salt state, that will send a special shell command to the salt minion and execute it in the background. Saltminion for suse sles 12 sp3 showing 110 of 10 messages.
By default the minion will look for the dns name salt for the master, making the easiest approach to set internal dns to resolve the name salt back to the salt master ip. Salt minion fails to start after initial configuration. There are few new commands that makes it much more easier. We also installed the salt minion daemon on this machine so that we can keep it in line with the rest of our infrastructure policies. Saltpack is an opensource package builder for most commonly used linux platforms, for. Note that some of the commands should be issued on the master, and some one the minion or slave as noted by the command prompts. In this episode, well show you how to add a linux salt minion to your master. After installation of the salt minion package and attempting to start the service the service status shows. This guide walks you through configuring a salt master and minion, and is relevant to any supported linux distribution. Remember, you can easily install python2dateutil and restart the salt minion service on all minions using a state or a salt command. Quick introspection into running systems becomes a reality. Windows salt has full support for running the salt minion on windows.
Install and start the salt minion as a windows service. How to install and configure salt master and minion servers on ubuntu 14. Redefine the master directive in the minion configuration file, which is typically etcsaltminion, as shown in the code below. Salt is 100% committed to being opensource, including all of our apis and the new halite web interface which was introduced in version 0.
How to install saltstack configuration management tool in centos linux. Salt master is part of the suse manager infrastructure set up for you by default uses srvsalt for userbased content supported salt minions. Installing saltstack saltminion to solus linux mangolassi. It allows commands to be executed across large groups of servers. As long as youre running a linux distribution supported by saltstack. Step by step installing centos linux 8 with screenshots. Visit the saltstack platform support site to learn how long a particular operating system and saltstack version will receive official packages, testing, and technical support.
Salt is pretty darn important to your stack, so keeping it working is essential. Oct, 2018 install the package saltminion on all salt minions after importing repository key and adding the repo. Saltstack is a powerful, flexible, high performing configuration management and remote execution system. How to install and configure salt master and minion servers on. Your salt master can manage itself, so a salt minion is installed along with the salt. This is a script for installing saltminion from source. Salt can be used for datadriven orchestration, remote execution for any infrastructure, configuration management for any app stack, and much more.
If your salt minion version is too far removed from the salt master version, you may find yourself with unexplained errors. In order for the configuration changes to take effect, we must restart the salt minion service. If you learn to know more on salt stack, you can check. Use saltstack intelligent it automation to easily provision, deploy, and configure any infrastructurephysical and virtual servers, public and private clouds, containers, even network deviceswith the push of a button. This trick lets you setup a salt minion server without having to edit the minion configuration file. This page contains instructions to download and install the latest release of saltstack. Installing an older salt master or minion for compatibility. How to install and configure salt master and minion servers. The host name wasnt exactly what my ocd wanted when it registered its key with the master, so i needed to change the name of the key. Update keep all your addons uptodate automatically. We are going to control the system using rest web service instead of salt minion. The saltminion receives commands from the central salt master and replies with the results of said commands.
Using xfs project quotas to limit capacity within a subdirectory. Macos uses etc salt the same as linux for holding the config files. Use salt grains to identify minions uptime through. Salt has full support for running the salt minion on windows. On salt server, lets manage a void linux based system. Getting started with salt basic installation and setup. Install the saltstack windows minion in client node with default settings and update below details while installing. Make sure the saltstack windows salt minion service is up and running on client node which you want to. This means systems can be easily managed, but data can also be easily gathered. Get your digital business infrastructure up and running faster. Ran into an issue the other day when installing and registering a salt minion with its master. The salt minion package is part of the salt configuration management software. Salt addresses this problem as well, the salt state system uses salt state files to define the state a server needs to be in.