How to Install saltstack on Centos/Redhat 7

Now will see how to install salt on centos 7 and how to connect both master and minion.before you start you can read Salt introduction

Install and configure the salt-master

Use the SaltStack official YUM repo to install the latest salt-master program:

# yum update
# yum install https://repo.saltstack.com/yum/redhat/salt-repo-latest-2.el7.noarch.rpm
# yum clean expire-cache
# yum install salt-master -y

Or

# curl -L https://bootstrap.saltstack.com -o install_salt.sh
# sh install_salt.sh -P -M

After the installation finishes, modify the configuration file as below:

# vim /etc/salt/master
Find and replace master IP (uncomment it)
interface: 192.168.0.161

and if need you can modify the timeouts (timeout & gather_job_timeout)

Start and enable the salt-master service:

# systemctl start salt-master.service
# systemctl enable salt-master.service

Modify firewall rules (optional)

By default, the salt-master service will use ports 4505 and 4506 to communicate with minions. You need to allow traffic through the two ports on the master server.

Find out to which zone the eth0 interface belongs:

# firewall-cmd --get-active-zones

You will find out that the eth0 interface belongs to the “public” zone. Therefore, you need to allow traffic through the two ports in the “public” zone:

# firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-port=4505-4506/tcp
# firewall-cmd --reload

That’s all that needs to be done on the master server for now.

Install and configure the salt-minion

Use the SaltStack official YUM repo to install the latest salt-minion program:

# yum update
# yum install https://repo.saltstack.com/yum/redhat/salt-repo-latest-2.el7.noarch.rpm
# yum clean expire-cache
# yum install salt-minion -y

Or

# curl -L https://bootstrap.saltstack.com -o install_salt.sh
# sh install_salt.sh -P

After the installation, modify the configuration file as below:

# vim /etc/salt/minion
Find and replace master IP (uncomment it)
master: 192.168.0.161

and mention your minion name on minion_id for easy idendification

# vim /etc/salt/minion_id
Id: fox1

Start and Enable the salt-minion service:

# systemctl start salt-minion.service
# systemctl enable salt-minion.service

Once salt-minion service started successfully, it sends off a signal to find the SaltStack server. Follow the steps to add more agents/minions

Accept the Minions

Once minion service started successfully, back to master and check all available minions on following command.

# salt-key -L

If everything was successful, you will see the minion server “fox1” listed in the “Unaccepted Keys” segment.

Accepted Keys:
Denied Keys:
Unaccepted Keys:
fox1
Rejected Keys:

Accept “fox1” using this command:

# salt-key --accept=fox1

Or accept all of the agent servers:

# salt-key -A

Now out minion is ready, we can run some commands on master to check all setted up good. here fox1 is my minion name, please replace with Yours.

Try 1:

# salt fox1 test.ping
fox1:
    True

Try 2:

# salt fox1 cmd.run 'free -m'
Fox1:
                  total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
    Mem:           487M        396M        5.9M        920K         85M         51M
    Swap:          1.5G         45M        1.5G

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