Installing and configuring the Salt master

In this section, we are going to configure the most important component of the Salt architecture—the Salt master. We'll install the Salt master package and configure the most important parameters needed for our infrastructure.

How to do it...

Let's see how we can install the Salt master on various types of OS.

Installing the Salt master on RedHat/CentOS/Fedora

  1. Salt packages are available in the EPEL repository. First, the repository needs to be added to the system. As the system being used is CentOS 6.5 (64-bit), we are using the epel-release package at http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/. This needs to be changed as per the version and architecture of the operating system being used:
    [root@salt-master ...

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