Salt Cookbook

Installing and configuring the Salt minion

In this recipe, we will learn about minions, how they work, and how to install and configure them.

How to do it...

We will install the Salt minion on a second node and name the node salt-minion. First, we will install the salt-minion package.

Installing the Salt minion on RedHat/CentOS/Fedora

1. Install the epel-release rpm to configure the EPEL repository:

   [root@salt-minion ~]# rpm -ihv \                               http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6- 8.noarch.rpm
   

2. After the EPEL release package has been installed, we will install the salt-minion package with the following command and the dependencies should automatically be fetched from the repository:

   [root@salt-minion ~]# yum –y install salt-minion
   

Installing ...