Salt minion is a program used by developers in order to create new applications. Getting started with salt stack windows minions blandname. As with salt fluorine, it also started as a series of tweets and mostly mentions new features. You must connect windows salt minions to a salt master on a supported operating system to control your salt minions. Salt master is the main control system used to send commands to salt minion and their configuration. A saltstack tutorial to start mastering data center minions. Hi readers,its continuing from salt server ubuntu, copy and open link address,here we are going to discuss how to install salt on windows,salt has full support for running the salt minion on windows. I have about 200 windows minion to deinstall and try a new version of the minion. Use salt grains to identify minions uptime through. Salt requires a minion configuration file and a few other directories. To understand how saltstack works in a data center environment, learn how to query information about a minion and how to use salt modules to make saltstack flexible.
Our fundamentals guide is a great place to learn the basics saltstack platform support. What systems and infrastructure can be managed by a salt minion. Setup salt minion in a python3 virtual environment on a. This section contains details on the windows package manager, and specific. Salt uses a masterclient model in which a dedicated salt master server manages one or more salt minion servers. Ok now back to the salt master, we can display the custom grains. David boucha hi jeff, were actually in the process of adding msis to our build process right now. Sls file managing windows software on a standalone windows minion. This ansible playbook is written to automate the steps provided in my previous blog to setup salt minion in a python3 virtual environment. Copy, paste and drag n drop between windows and vmware workstation debianubuntu vm.
The salt master runs on linux by default, but any operating system can be a minion, and currently windows, vmware vsphere and bsd unix variants are wellsupported. It can also be used in standalone mode to apply states to a machine without a master by using c. For example i have minion with id 172, and i want to rename it, without uninstalling it from the minion machine and the reinstalling with the correct id, lets say 175. Salt windows installer this repository is for the windows installer work is currently ongoing to create a simple salt windows installer in the subfolder salt inside the deps folder, but is currently broken. Switch to docs for the previous stable release, 2019. Getting started with salt basic installation and setup. If enabled the user will need to be allowed access via the sudoers file for the user that the salt minion is configured to run as. Manage salt minions in large environments in symphony. Saltstack software runs on and manages many versions of linux, windows, mac os x and unix. Hopefully well have initial msis for testing in a week or two. Hi, so saltstack question, how can i rename minion id after it got registered on the salt master. How to install and configure salt master and minion.
You can query the available version of a package using the salt pkg module. Such as scientific analysis proves that it involves all the four lobes of the brain to work cohesively in order to create something meaningful configuration management. We will also demonstrate how to install the salt minion daemon on other computers in order to manage them with salt. This is samantha with the devops library, and in this short lesson were going to show you how to add a windows minion to our salt master. If you want to read about other changes and deprecations for example, raet is gone, then go read the official release notes and the new handcrafted changelog.
For the moment there is no a normal way to upgrade saltminions from the saltmaster and not to lose communication between them but you can create a saltstate, that will send a special shell command to the saltminion and execute it in the background. Salt has full support for running the salt minion on windows. Troubleshooting the salt minion salt cookbook book. Has anyone experiencing any issues with minion on windows server 2012 r2. For now you must run your salt master on a supported operating system to control your salt minions on windows. There are no plans for the foreseeable future to develop a salt master on windows. I heard a few guys on github who had success fixing their issue only by uninstalling old minion version and installing the new one. This package installs a salt minion on your system as a windows service. Populate the repository sync repo to windows minions. Saltstack minion on windows server 2012 r2 stack overflow. It can either operate as a standalone daemon which accepts commands locally via saltcall or it can connect back. How to install and configure salt master and minion servers on ubuntu 14. This means i probably have a bunch of outmoded ways of working with windows.
This is because the saltminion service is only running to listen for events from the master. The saltmaster is configured via the master configuration file, and the saltminion is configured via the minion configuration file. Spinning up windows minions saltstack documentation. Master and minion, or masterless architecture agent minion or agentless saltssh permanent, encrypted and authenticated connection zeromqaes open api for thirdparty cloud and software. Salt minions they are also called nodes are subsystems that work on managed servers and receive commands from the master, as well as their configuration. Im new to salt, and im a recovering windows syasdamin from the 200020 era.
Q19 how will you be able to restart the salt minion with the help of states. The saltminion receives commands from the central saltmaster and replies with the. The default config file is named minion located in c. One will function as the salt master and the others. Wie sie saltstack mit einem provisioningsystem wie cobbler.
The salt windows software repository provides a package manager and. Package manager see also the official documentation windows package manager initialize the repository on your salt master. This howto on windows salt minions will just scratch the surface of the power behind salt, and will cover remote execution, installation and management. From command prompt run python \python27\scripts\saltminion c c. Make sure the saltstack windows saltminion service is up and running on client node which you want to manage.
Install and start the salt minion as a windows service. You must connect windows salt minions to a salt master on a supported operating system to. Saltstack is the best choice because its proactive and it creates selfhealing systems. This long article explores windows management with salt. Install the saltstack windows minion in client node with default settings and update below details while installing. More information on impacket can be found at the project home.
To make the new custom grains take effect, the saltminion service must be restarted after editing the minion file. There have been no reported issues that are 2012 r2 specific. On windows tobe slave, download and install the same salt version saltminion package. My aim is to implement log rotation for saltminion installed on windows.
Perform an update using the package manager example of rhel based derivative. This package installs a saltminion on your system as a windows service. How to modify saltminion settings in windows without. Changing name of saltminion my sys admin nightmare. The salt minion receives commands from the central salt master and replies with the results of said commands. That was the biggest difference between saltstack and the other guys. 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. This section contains details on the windows package manager, and specific information you need. 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. Ran into an issue the other day when installing and registering a salt minion with its master. Stop the saltminion service service saltminion stop.
Salt minion runs a single process that sits on machines to be managed by salt. You are viewing docs for the latest stable release, 3000. Upgrading saltminion on windows using salt tech notes. Ansible playbook to automate salt minion deployment. Your salt master can manage itself, so a salt minion is installed along with the salt master. Saltstack copy directory from salt master to minion. The saltminion service will appear in the windows service manager and can be started and stopped there or with the command line program sc like any other windows service. This guide walks you through configuring a salt master and minion, and is relevant to any supported linux distribution. 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.
It can also be used in standalone mode to apply states to a machine without a saltmaster by using c. What operating systems are covered by saltstack enterprise support offerings. The user to run salt remote execution commands as via sudo. Ansible is so beautiful yet cool to complementing salt to be deployed across all hosts. If you do not want to install the minion, also pass the n option. Security we use saltstack to enforce cis compliance through automated, orchestrated, and audited patching and configuration across our windows and linux infrastructure. In this recipe, you will learn how to determine the selection from salt cookbook book. Upgrade the linux saltminion i added this just for good measure but as you can see, upgrading on linux is pretty straight forward. Windows software repository saltstack documentation.
On windows tobe slave, download and install the same salt version salt minion package. If this option is enabled then sudo will be used to change the active user executing the remote command. Salt cloud makes use of impacket and winexe to set up the windows salt minion installer. Troubleshooting the salt minion not only the salt master but also the salt minions can face a lot of problems. The saltminion receives commands from the central saltmaster and replies with the results of said commands. On each salt minion run these commands on each system that you want to manage using salt. Salt also referred to as saltstack is a pythonbased configuration management and orchestration system. 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. The installer will update the minion config with these options and then start the minion. Create selfmanaging servers with masterless saltstack minions. Yes, you can definitely restart the salt minion with the help of states. If you have more saltstack agent servers, you need to setup them in the same fashion. You just need to modify the salt minions config file which is found here, by default.
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