In this guide, we will walk you through the installation of SaltStack on Fedora 36.
SaltStack is a Python-based, open-source for event-driven It automation, remote task execution, and configuration management. Salt was designed to be highly modular and easily extensible, to make it easy to mold to diverse IT enterprise use cases.
Salt is capable of maintaining remote nodes in defined states that is it can ensure specific packages are installed and that specific services are running. Salt can query and execute commands either on individual nodes or by using arbitrary selection criteria.
The core functions of Salt
- Salt enables commands on the remote systems to be called in parallel rather than serially.
- Salt provides a simple programming interface.
- It uses the smallest and fastest network payload possible
- Use a secure and encrypted protocol.
Salt Architecture
Salt uses the master client model. Master issues command to the client and the client executes the commands. Salt master is the server that is running the salt-master service. Salt minions are the servers running the salt-minion services.
A target is a group of minions across one or many masters that a job’s salt command applies to.
Grains interface derives information about the underlying system. Grains are collected for the operating system, domain name, IP addresses, kernel os, etc.
Installing salt on Fedora 36
1. Update system repositories
Before we begin, we need to update our system repositories in order to make them up to date.
sudo dnf update 2. Install Salt on Fedora 36
Salt is readily available on Fedora repositories and the EPEL. So it is easy to run and install Salt using the dnf or the yum package.
To install both Salt master and minion on your system, use the following command and remember that you need to install a master on the control machine and minions on the servers you want the salt to run on.
Install Salt master
$ sudo dnf install salt-masterThe following is the output from the above command.
Package Arch Version Repository Size
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Installing:
salt-master noarch 3004.2-1.fc36 updates 3.1 M
Installing dependencies:
dnf-utils noarch 4.2.1-1.fc36 updates 37 k
libtomcrypt x86_64 1.18.2-14.fc36 fedora 389 k
libtommath x86_64 1.2.0-7.fc36 fedora 63 k
libunwind x86_64 1.6.2-2.fc36 fedora 67 k
openpgm x86_64 5.2.122-28.fc36 fedora 177 k
python3-msgpack x86_64 1.0.3-2.fc36 fedora 86 k
python3-pycryptodomex x86_64 3.15.0-1.fc36 updates 1.1 M
python3-pycurl x86_64 7.45.1-1.fc36 fedora 186 k
python3-zmq x86_64 22.3.0-2.fc36 fedora 403 k
salt noarch 3004.2-1.fc36 updates 9.3 M
zeromq x86_64 4.3.4-3.fc36 fedora 440 k
Transaction Summary
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Install 12 Packages
Total download size: 15 M
Installed size: 58 M
Is this ok [y/N]: yTo install Salt minion we use the following command.
sudo dnf install salt-minionWhenever you want to connect to minions, you need to have proper permission and for this we need to have Salt ssh.
sudo dnf install salt-sshIn order to install Salt API we use the following command.
sudo dnf install salt-api3. Post installation tasks
After the installation is complete, you can run post installations tasks on both master and minions.
To enable Salt master start automatically on boot use the following command.
sudo systemctl enable salt-masterTo start Salt master, we use the following command
sudo systemctl start salt-masterTo enable Salt minion start automatically on boot we use the this command.
sudo systemctl enable salt-minionTo start Salt minion, we use the following command.
sudo systemctl start salt-minionTo check the status of both Salt master and Salt minion, we use the following command.
$ sudo systemctl status salt-master // for salt master
$ sudo systemctl status salt-minion // for salt minion
● salt-master.service - The Salt Master Server
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/salt-master.service; enabled; ven>
Active: active (running) since Sat 2022-08-13 06:36:03 UTC; 11s ago
Docs: man:salt-master(1)
file:///usr/share/doc/salt/html/contents.html
https://docs.saltproject.io/en/latest/contents.html
Main PID: 10739 (salt-master)
Tasks: 32 (limit: 1113)
Memory: 199.1M
CPU: 6.621s
CGroup: /system.slice/salt-master.service
├─ 10739 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/salt-master
├─ 10743 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/salt-master
├─ 10746 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/salt-master
├─ 10747 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/salt-master
├─ 10750 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/salt-master
├─ 10751 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/salt-master
├─ 10752 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/salt-master
├─ 10759 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/salt-master
├─ 10760 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/salt-master
├─ 10762 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/salt-master
├─ 10766 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/salt-master
├─ 10768 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/salt-master
4. Configuration of the Saltstack
To start off, we need to configure the master so that it will know of the existence of the minions. All the configuration files are found on /etc/salt/.The minions or the master must be findable for it to establish the communication.
To configure Salt master go to /etc/salt/master and add your master IP address with Salt-master IP address.
$ sudo vi /etc/salt/masterUncomment interface and add the salt-master IP address.
Restart Salt-master for the changes to take effect.
sudo systemctl restart salt-masterNext we need to configure Salt-minion, go to /etc/salt/minion and replace master: salt with a master IP address.
sudo /etc/salt/minionUncomment master: salt and remove salt and replace with your master IP address.
We need to restart the server again for the changes to take effect.
sudo systemctl restart salt-minion 5. Test configuration
To see the configuration use the following commands:
sudo salt-key -LFrom the above command you be in a position to see the following:
Accepted Keys:
Denied Keys:
Unaccepted Keys:
Rejected Keys:To accept all keys use the following command.
$ salt-key -AConclusion
Congratulations we have installed Salt-master and Salt-Minion on Fedora 36.