Installation

configuration

We have saltmaster and salt minion For saltmaster configuration located at: /etc/salt/master Master Configuration

Interface should be the ip address of saltmaster which will use by saltminions. There is a file_roots: that help us to recognize our enviroments.

Master installtion

  • yum update
  • yum install https://repo.saltstack.com/yum/redhat/salt-repo-latest-2.el7.noarch.rpm
  • yum clean expire-cache
  • yum install salt-master -y

After the installation finishes,modify configuration vim /etc/salt/master Find and replace master IP (uncomment it) interface: 192.168.0.161

Start and enable the salt-master service: systemctl start salt-master.service systemctl enable salt-master.service

Minion installation

  • yum update
  • yum install https://repo.saltstack.com/yum/redhat/salt-repo-latest-2.el7.noarch.rpm
  • yum clean expire-cache
  • yum install salt-minion -y

After the installation finishes,modify configuration

vim /etc/salt/minion Find and replace master IP (uncomment it) master: 192.168.0.161

mention your minion name on minion_id for easy idendification

  • systemctl start salt-minion.service
  • systemctl enable salt-minion.service

Accept the Minions

salt-key -L
get list of all minions

salt-key -A
this will accept all minions

salt-key -D
this will delete all minions

salt '*' test.ping

It will get ping of all server which act as minion

salt-key --accept=fox1
Minion Configuration

We specifiy master ip address in /etc/salt/minion If we want to connect to mysql we should Add mysql section to configuration. 

mysql.host: 'localhost'
mysql.port: 3306
mysql.user: 'root'
mysql.pass: ''
mysql.db: 'mysql'
mysql.unix_socket: '/tmp/mysql.sock'
mysql.charset: 'utf8'

Now you can work with your databases

salt '*' mysql.db_create 'dbname'

There is list of action here