Installing salt-master, salt-minion on RHEL / CENTOS

Installation

Installation of salt-master and salt-minion will be done from the official SaltStack repository.

sudo yum install https://repo.saltstack.com/yum/redhat/salt-repo-latest-1.el7.noarch.rpm 

Attention! When installing on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 with disconnected (not subscribed to) RHEL Server Releases or RHEL Server Optional Channel repositories, add the CentOS 7 GPG key URL to the SaltStack yum repository configuration to install the base packages.

 [saltstack-repo] name=SaltStack repo for Red Hat Enterprise Linux $releasever baseurl=https://repo.saltstack.com/yum/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/latest enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=https://repo.saltstack.com/yum/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/latest/SALTSTACK-GPG-KEY.pub https://repo.saltstack.com/yum/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/latest/base/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-7 

 sudo yum clean expire-cache 

Install salt-minion, salt-master or other Salt components:

 sudo yum install salt-master sudo yum install salt-minion sudo yum install salt-ssh sudo yum install salt-syndic sudo yum install salt-cloud sudo yum install salt-api 

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After installation

Setting the automatic start of the salt-master service at boot time .
RHEL / CentOS 5 and 6:

 chkconfig salt-master on 

RHEL / CentOS 7:

 systemctl enable salt-master.service 

Launch Wizard
RHEL / CentOS 5 and 6:

 service salt-master start 

RHEL / CentOS 7:

 systemctl start salt-master.service 

Configuring the automatic start of the salt-minion service at boot time
RHEL / CentOS 5 and 6:

 chkconfig salt-minion on 

RHEL / CentOS 7:

 systemctl enable salt-minion.service 

Running minion
RHEL / CentOS 5 and 6:

 service salt-minion start 

RHEL / CentOS 7:

 systemctl start salt-minion.service 

Configuration will be discussed in the next article, Salt Configuration

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