Download and install the 2015.8 release of SaltStack.
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This page contains instructions to download and install the 2015.8 release of SaltStack.
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Latest branch release: 2015.8.13 (January 30, 2017)
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Run these commands on the system that you want to use as the central management point.
curl -L https://bootstrap.saltstack.com -o install_salt.sh
sudo sh install_salt.sh -P -M
Your Salt master can manage itself, so a Salt minion is installed along with the Salt master. If you do not want to install the minion, also pass the -N
option.
Run these commands on each system that you want to manage using Salt.
curl -L https://bootstrap.saltstack.com -o install_salt.sh
sudo sh install_salt.sh -P
Post-installation configuration
Installs the latest release from the 2015.8 branch. Updating installs the latest minor release from the 2015.8 branch.
2015.8.10 Final Branch Release of Debian 7 Packages
Regular security support for Debian 7 ended on April 25th 2016. As a result, 2015.8.10 was the last Salt release on this branch for which Debian 7 packages were created.
These instructions show you how to install 2015.8.10 on Debian 7.
Read Before Upgrading Debian 7 (Wheezy) from 2015.8.7 to 2015.8.10
Before you upgrade, you must run the following commands to remove previous packages:
sudo apt-get remove python-pycrypto
sudo apt-get remove python-apache-libcloud
Note that python-pycrypto
will likely remove python-apache-libcloud
, so the second command might not be necessary. These have been replaced by python-crypto
and python-libcloud
with ~bpo70+1 moniker.
Read Before Upgrading Debian 8 (Jessie) from Salt Versions Earlier than 2015.8.4
Salt systemd
service files are missing the following statement in these versions:
[Service]
KillMode=process
This statement must be added to successfully upgrade on these earlier versions of Salt.
wget -O - https://repo.saltstack.com/apt/debian/8/amd64/2015.8/SALTSTACK-GPG-KEY.pub | sudo apt-key add -
wget -O - http://repo.saltstack.com/apt/debian/7/amd64/archive/2015.8.10/SALTSTACK-GPG-KEY.pub | sudo apt-key add -
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/saltstack.list
:
deb http://repo.saltstack.com/apt/debian/8/amd64/2015.8 jessie main
deb http://repo.saltstack.com/apt/debian/7/amd64/archive/2015.8.10 wheezy main
Run sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install salt-master
sudo apt-get install salt-minion
sudo apt-get install salt-ssh
sudo apt-get install salt-syndic
sudo apt-get install salt-cloud
sudo apt-get install salt-api
Post-installation configuration
Installs the 2015.8.13 release. Updating doesn’t change the release that is installed.
Final Release of Debian 7 Packages
Regular security support for Debian 7 ended on April 25th 2016. As a result, 2015.8.10 will be the last Salt release on this branch for which Debian 7 packages are created.
Read Before Upgrading Debian 7 (Wheezy) from 2015.8.7 to 2015.8.10
Before you upgrade, you must run the following commands to remove previous packages:
sudo apt-get remove python-pycrypto
sudo apt-get remove python-apache-libcloud
Note that python-pycrypto
will likely remove python-apache-libcloud
, so the second command might not be necessary. These have been replaced by python-crypto
and python-libcloud
with ~bpo70+1 moniker.
Read Before Upgrading Debian 8 (Jessie) from Salt Versions Earlier than 2015.8.4
Salt systemd
service files are missing the following statement in these versions:
[Service]
KillMode=process
This statement must be added to successfully upgrade on these earlier versions of Salt.
wget -O - https://repo.saltstack.com/apt/debian/8/amd64/archive/2015.8.13/SALTSTACK-GPG-KEY.pub | sudo apt-key add -
wget -O - http://repo.saltstack.com/apt/debian/7/amd64/archive/2015.8.10/SALTSTACK-GPG-KEY.pub | sudo apt-key add -
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/saltstack.list
:
deb http://repo.saltstack.com/apt/debian/8/amd64/archive/2015.8.13 jessie main
deb http://repo.saltstack.com/apt/debian/7/amd64/archive/2015.8.10 wheezy main
Run sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install salt-master
sudo apt-get install salt-minion
sudo apt-get install salt-ssh
sudo apt-get install salt-syndic
sudo apt-get install salt-cloud
sudo apt-get install salt-api
Post-installation configuration
Installs the latest release from the 2015.8 branch. Updating installs the latest minor release from the 2015.8 branch.
sudo yum install https://repo.saltstack.com/yum/redhat/salt-repo-2015.8-3.el7.noarch.rpm
sudo yum install https://repo.saltstack.com/yum/redhat/salt-repo-2015.8-3.el6.noarch.rpm
wget https://repo.saltstack.com/yum/redhat/salt-repo-2015.8-3.el5.noarch.rpm
sudo rpm -ivh salt-repo-2015.8-3.el5.noarch.rpm
rm -f salt-repo-2015.8-3.el5.noarch.rpm
Run sudo yum clean expire-cache
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
Post-installation configuration
Installs the 2015.8.13 release. Updating doesn’t change the release that is installed.
Run the following commands to install the SaltStack repository and key:
sudo rpm --import https://repo.saltstack.com/yum/redhat/7/x86_64/archive/2015.8.13/SALTSTACK-GPG-KEY.pub
sudo rpm --import https://repo.saltstack.com/yum/redhat/6/x86_64/archive/2015.8.13/SALTSTACK-GPG-KEY.pub
wget https://repo.saltstack.com/yum/redhat/5/x86_64/archive/2015.8.13/SALTSTACK-EL5-GPG-KEY.pub
sudo rpm --import SALTSTACK-EL5-GPG-KEY.pub
rm -f SALTSTACK-EL5-GPG-KEY.pub
Save the following file to /etc/yum.repos.d/saltstack.repo
:
[saltstack-repo]
name=SaltStack repo for RHEL/CentOS $releasever
baseurl=https://repo.saltstack.com/yum/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/archive/2015.8.13
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://repo.saltstack.com/yum/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/archive/2015.8.13/SALTSTACK-GPG-KEY.pub
[saltstack-repo]
name=SaltStack repo for RHEL/CentOS $releasever
baseurl=https://repo.saltstack.com/yum/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/archive/2015.8.13
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://repo.saltstack.com/yum/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/archive/2015.8.13/SALTSTACK-GPG-KEY.pub
[saltstack-repo]
name=SaltStack repo for RHEL/CentOS $releasever
baseurl=https://repo.saltstack.com/yum/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/archive/2015.8.13
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://repo.saltstack.com/yum/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/archive/2015.8.13/SALTSTACK-EL5-GPG-KEY.pub
Run sudo yum clean expire-cache
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
Post-installation configuration
Installs the latest release from the 2015.8 branch. Updating installs the latest minor release from the 2015.8 branch.
wget -O - https://repo.saltstack.com/apt/ubuntu/16.04/amd64/2015.8/SALTSTACK-GPG-KEY.pub | sudo apt-key add -
wget -O - https://repo.saltstack.com/apt/ubuntu/14.04/amd64/2015.8/SALTSTACK-GPG-KEY.pub | sudo apt-key add -
wget -O - https://repo.saltstack.com/apt/ubuntu/12.04/amd64/2015.8/SALTSTACK-GPG-KEY.pub | sudo apt-key add -
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/saltstack.list
:
deb http://repo.saltstack.com/apt/ubuntu/16.04/amd64/2015.8 xenial main
deb http://repo.saltstack.com/apt/ubuntu/14.04/amd64/2015.8 trusty main
deb http://repo.saltstack.com/apt/ubuntu/12.04/amd64/2015.8 precise main
Run sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install salt-master
sudo apt-get install salt-minion
sudo apt-get install salt-ssh
sudo apt-get install salt-syndic
sudo apt-get install salt-cloud
sudo apt-get install salt-api
Post-installation configuration
Installs the 2015.8.13 release. Updating doesn’t change the release that is installed.
wget -O - https://repo.saltstack.com/apt/ubuntu/16.04/amd64/archive/2015.8.13/SALTSTACK-GPG-KEY.pub | sudo apt-key add -
wget -O - https://repo.saltstack.com/apt/ubuntu/14.04/amd64/archive/2015.8.13/SALTSTACK-GPG-KEY.pub | sudo apt-key add -
wget -O - https://repo.saltstack.com/apt/ubuntu/12.04/amd64/archive/2015.8.13/SALTSTACK-GPG-KEY.pub | sudo apt-key add -
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/saltstack.list
:
deb http://repo.saltstack.com/apt/ubuntu/16.04/amd64/archive/2015.8.13 xenial main
deb http://repo.saltstack.com/apt/ubuntu/14.04/amd64/archive/2015.8.13 trusty main
deb http://repo.saltstack.com/apt/ubuntu/12.04/amd64/archive/2015.8.13 precise main
Run sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install salt-master
sudo apt-get install salt-minion
sudo apt-get install salt-ssh
sudo apt-get install salt-syndic
sudo apt-get install salt-cloud
sudo apt-get install salt-api
Post-installation configuration
Installs the latest release from the 2015.8 branch. Updating installs the latest minor release from the 2015.8 branch.
Prerequisites: Ensure that libgit2-devel
and python-devel
are installed or Salt will not work after installation:
sudo zypper install libgit2-devel python-devel
Prerequisites: If using salt-cloud
, also install python-apache-libcloud
and python-lxml
:
sudo zypper install python-apache-libcloud python-lxml
sudo zypper addrepo http://repo.saltstack.com/opensuse/SLE_12/systemsmanagement:saltstack.repo
sudo zypper addrepo http://repo.saltstack.com/opensuse/SLE_12/systemsmanagement:saltstack.repo
sudo zypper addrepo http://repo.saltstack.com/opensuse/SLE_11_SP4/systemsmanagement:saltstack.repo
sudo zypper addrepo http://repo.saltstack.com/opensuse/openSUSE_13.2/systemsmanagement:saltstack.repo
sudo zypper addrepo http://repo.saltstack.com/opensuse/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/systemsmanagement:saltstack.repo
Refresh the package list:
sudo zypper refresh
sudo zypper install salt-master=2015.8.10-76.5
sudo zypper install salt-minion=2015.8.10-76.5
sudo zypper install salt-ssh=2015.8.10-76.5
sudo zypper install salt-syndic=2015.8.10-76.5
sudo zypper install salt-cloud=2015.8.10-76.5
sudo zypper install salt-api=2015.8.10-76.5
sudo zypper install salt-proxy=2015.8.10-76.5
sudo zypper install salt-master=2015.8.10-76.1
sudo zypper install salt-minion=2015.8.10-76.1
sudo zypper install salt-ssh=2015.8.10-76.1
sudo zypper install salt-syndic=2015.8.10-76.1
sudo zypper install salt-cloud=2015.8.10-76.1
sudo zypper install salt-api=2015.8.10-76.1
sudo zypper install salt-proxy=2015.8.10-76.1
Post-installation configuration
Installs the latest release from the 2015.8 branch. Updating installs the latest minor release from the 2015.8 branch.
wget -O - https://repo.saltstack.com/apt/suse/14.04/amd64/2015.8/SALTSTACK-GPG-KEY.pub | sudo apt-key add -
wget -O - https://repo.saltstack.com/apt/suse/12.04/amd64/2015.8/SALTSTACK-GPG-KEY.pub | sudo apt-key add -
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/saltstack.list
:
deb http://repo.saltstack.com/apt/suse/14.04/amd64/2015.8 trusty main
deb http://repo.saltstack.com/apt/suse/12.04/amd64/2015.8 precise main
Run sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install salt-master
sudo apt-get install salt-minion
sudo apt-get install salt-ssh
sudo apt-get install salt-syndic
sudo apt-get install salt-cloud
sudo apt-get install salt-api
sudo apt-get install salt-api
Post-installation configuration
Installs the 2015.8.13 release. Updating doesn’t change the release that is installed.
wget -O - https://repo.saltstack.com/apt/suse/14.04/amd64/archive/2015.8.13/SALTSTACK-GPG-KEY.pub | sudo apt-key add -
wget -O - https://repo.saltstack.com/apt/suse/12.04/amd64/archive/2015.8.13/SALTSTACK-GPG-KEY.pub | sudo apt-key add -
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/saltstack.list
:
deb http://repo.saltstack.com/apt/suse/14.04/amd64/archive/2015.8.13 trusty main
deb http://repo.saltstack.com/apt/suse/12.04/amd64/archive/2015.8.13 precise main
Run sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install salt-master
sudo apt-get install salt-minion
sudo apt-get install salt-ssh
sudo apt-get install salt-syndic
sudo apt-get install salt-cloud
sudo apt-get install salt-api
Post-installation configuration
Installation executables:
AMD64: Salt-Minion-2015.8.12-AMD64-Setup.exe | MD5
x86: Salt-Minion-2015.8.12-x86-Setup.exe | MD5
The installer can be run silently by providing the /S
option at the command line. The options /master
and /minion-name
allow for configuring the master hostname and minion name, respectively. Here’s an example of running a silent installation from the command line:
Salt-Minion-2015.8.12-AMD64-Setup.exe /S /master=yoursaltmaster /minion-name=yourminionname
Post-installation configuration
Installs the latest release from the 2015.8 branch. Updating installs the latest minor release from the 2015.8 branch.
sudo yum install https://repo.saltstack.com/yum/amazon/salt-amzn-repo-2015.8-2.ami.noarch.rpm
Run sudo yum clean expire-cache
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
Post-installation configuration
Installs the 2015.8.13 release. Updating doesn’t change the release that is installed.
Run the following commands to install the SaltStack repository and key:
sudo rpm --import https://repo.saltstack.com/yum/redhat/6/x86_64/archive/2015.8.13/SALTSTACK-GPG-KEY.pub
Save the following file to /etc/yum.repos.d/saltstack-amzn.repo
:
[saltstack-amzn-repo]
name=SaltStack repo for Amazon Linux
baseurl=https://repo.saltstack.com/yum/redhat/6/$basearch/archive/2015.8.13
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://repo.saltstack.com/yum/redhat/6/$basearch/archive/2015.8.13/SALTSTACK-GPG-KEY.pub
Run sudo yum clean expire-cache
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
Post-installation configuration
For installation on other platforms and alternative installation methods, see the SaltStack Installation Instructions.
The SaltStack package repo supports mirroring using rsync
.
Rsync used to be available from both rsync.repo.saltstack.com and repo.saltstack.com. Going forward, only rsync.repo.saltstack.com will be available. Please check your scripts.
rsync rsync://rsync.repo.saltstack.com
For example:
rsync -vaH --numeric-ids --delete --delete-after --delay-updates rsync://rsync.repo.saltstack.com/saltstack_pkgrepo_full ./fullrepo