Install Salt / Saltstack Master

Installation

Install a Salt master using the instructions for your platform or by running the Salt bootstrap script. ...
Make sure that your Salt minions can find the Salt master.
Install the Salt minion on each system that you want to manage.
Accept the Salt minion keys after the Salt minion connects.

How do I install salt on Ubuntu?
How do you set up salt minion?
How do I install salt master on CentOS?
Where is Salt installed on Linux?
How do I check my salt minion version?
Is Salt a open source?
How do you set up a salt master?
How do I know if salt master is running?
How do you connect Salt minion to master?
How do I update my salt master?
What is salt minion?
How much does SaltStack cost?

How do I install salt on Ubuntu?

Install the Salt master, minion or other packages from the repository with the apt-get command.
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Install Packages

apt-get install salt-api.
apt-get install salt-cloud.
apt-get install salt-master.
apt-get install salt-minion.
apt-get install salt-ssh.
apt-get install salt-syndic.

How do you set up salt minion?

The Salt Minion configuration is very simple. Typically, the only value that needs to be set is the master value so the minion knows where to locate its master. By default, the salt-minion configuration will be in /etc/salt/minion .

How do I install salt master on CentOS?

Installing SaltStack Master On CentOS 7 (Simple Steps)

1.1) RAM and DISK information: CPU: 2core. ...
1.2) Firewall port up for SaltStack: ...
# firewall-cmd –reload.
# firewall-cmd –list-ports.
Run the following commands to install the SaltStack repository and key: ...
Install the salt-master, ...
CONFIGURING SALT-MASTER: ...
INSTALLING SALT-MINION.

Where is Salt installed on Linux?

This means that the easiest configuration approach is to set internal DNS to resolve the name salt back to the Salt Master IP. The default location of the configuration files is /etc/salt .

How do I check my salt minion version?

Steps to Reproduce Issue

Update on AWS Ubuntu with bootstrap or apt-get.
'salt --version' (or 'sudo salt --version') and see that the version is still old.
Yet notice in the install output that salt will say it updated to 2017+

Is Salt a open source?

Salt (sometimes referred to as SaltStack) is Python-based, open-source software for event-driven IT automation, remote task execution, and configuration management.

How do you set up a salt master?

Primary Master Configuration

interface. Default: 0.0.0.0 (all interfaces) The local interface to bind to, must be an IP address. ...
ipv6. Default: False. ...
publish_port. Default: 4505. ...
master_id. Default: None. ...
user. Default: root. ...
enable_ssh_minions. Default: False. ...
pidfile. Default: /var/run/salt-master.pid. ...
root_dir. Default: /

How do I know if salt master is running?

Live Salt-Master Profiling

If run in foreground salt-master will report filename for the results, which are usually located under /tmp on Unix-based OSes and c:\temp on windows.

How do you connect Salt minion to master?

If you have firewalls in the way, make sure you open up both port 4505 (the publish port) and 4506 (the return port) to the Salt master to let the minions talk to it. Now you need to configure your Minion to connect to your master. Edit the file /etc/salt/minion. d/minion.

How do I update my salt master?

Salt can be upgraded either through your distribution's package manager or if via PyPI if you have installed Salt via pip, the package installer for Python.
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Verify Your Salt Version

rpm -qi salt.
dpkg-query -l salt\*
yum list installed salt\*
salt --versions-report.
salt-call --local test. versions_report.

What is salt minion?

Salt (also referred to as SaltStack) is a Python-based configuration management and orchestration system. Salt uses a master/client model in which a dedicated Salt master server manages one or more Salt minion servers. Two of Salt's primary jobs are: Remotely executing commands across a set of minions.

How much does SaltStack cost?

Price and Value

SaltStack − Free open source version. SaltStack Enterprise costs $150 per machine per year. Puppet − Free open source version. Puppet Enterprise costs $100 per machine per year.