@pmoncho said in Opinions: Ansible vs. SaltStack:

@scottalanmiller

What would be the sense of purchasing a solid open source project like SaltStack?
Being OS, VMware can add their own developers to the project and still integrate it with their products without the cost of purchasing the company.

I think they're just trying to stay relevant. Like with Harbor, Tanzu, etc.

@dafyre said in Why Do We Get IP Local Hostnames for Salt Minion Keys:

@scottalanmiller said in Why Do We Get IP Local Hostnames for Salt Minion Keys:

Okay, finally got around to tracking this down. In your minion file, on Linux systems this would be /etc/salt/minion, you need to uncomment the id: field and put in the name that you want to use and restart your minion process. This will update the name as seen in the Salt Master.

Is this separate from the /etc/salt/minion_id file?

It's just in the minion file.

If you ran the Bootstrap script, this is what you would have gotten as the error:

Fetched 1,035 kB in 1s (959 kB/s) Reading package lists... Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... ca-certificates is already the newest version (20160104ubuntu1). apt-transport-https is already the newest version (1.3.2ubuntu0.1). apt-transport-https set to manually installed. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded. Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... E: Unable to locate package gnupg-curl * ERROR: Failed to run install_ubuntu_stable_deps()!!!

New Commands are:

The salt-key command is used to manage all of the keys on the master. To list the keys that are on the master:

salt-key -L

The keys that have been rejected, accepted, and pending acceptance are listed. The easiest way to accept the minion key is to accept all pending keys:

salt-key -A

@tim_g said in Installing Salt Master:

@scottalanmiller said in Installing Salt Master:

Now we can easily get Salt Master installed.
cd /tmp; curl -L https://bootstrap.saltstack.com -o install_salt.sh
sh install_salt.sh -M

What's the difference between installing it like you mention above, or via the repository apt-get install salt-master for example?

https://repo.saltstack.com/#ubuntu

Ubuntu because that's all I have available right now for testing, in case anyone has the urge to point that out. It's also the same for Fedora: https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/installation/fedora.html
But that's besides the point.

In theory it handles grabbing the repos under the hood, but in a more universal way. And handles some distros that dont' necessarily have repos.