@JaredBusch

Hi

Play with this :

https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/states/all/salt.states.win_lgpo.html

If you have windows minions and set it to run every 30/60/90 mins, and BAM you have AD without MS BS

While you can use salt grains to target OSes, I like to diffrentiate them with good naming system:

WIN.001
LIN.001
SRV.001

You might ask how to differentiate between windows SRV and Linux SRV, well frankly my dear i dont give damn, and i dont run Windows servers.

@black3dynamite said in Salt - Can't Connect to Minions After Adding Them to Master:

I sometimes have to add --timeout 60 so I can see a response
salt FP01.domain.local test.ping --timeout 60

Seems to be working. I think that it was the firewall needing the exception AND using the

--timeout 60

Thanks!

Weird.. I didn't have to do anything with SELinux to get it working:

https://timothygruber.com/linux/saltstack-installation-configuration/#Installing_the_Salt-Master

@black3dynamite said in VyOS native Salt Minion:

@scottalanmiller said in VyOS native Salt Minion:

That's great. I'd not played with that yet.

I wonder when they will get one (or this one) running on EdgeOS. Now that would be awesome.

Is EdgeOS a Debian-based Linux system like VyOS?

EdgeOS is a Vyatta fork, just like VyOS. They are extremely close. To the point that people constantly confuse them.

@dafyre said in Installing SaltStack Salt-Minion to Solus Linux:

@quixoticjustin said in Installing SaltStack Salt-Minion to Solus Linux:

Solus Linux lacks a native package for SaltStack and so to use it as a Salt Minion you have to grab the packages from GitHub and create it yourself. Special thanks to @scottalanmiller who looked into this and Exoner4ted in the Solus community who did the research and figured out how to make this work.

Remember to change "saltmastip" to the actual IP of your salt master or handle that however makes sense for you.

cd /tmp; wget https://github.com/saltstack/salt/archive/2018.3.zip unzip 2018.3.zip; cd /tmp/salt-2018.3/ python /root/salt-2018.3setup.py install echo "saltmasterip salt" >> /etc/hosts cp /root/salt-2018.3/pkg/salt-minion.service /usr/lib/systemd/system/ systemctl daemon-reload && systemctl enable salt-minion eopkg install python-pyzmq pycrypto python-msgpack python-tornado python-jinja pyyaml systemctl restart salt-minion

Unfortunately this package is not self updating.

Once you get the initial client installed, you should be able to to push out new salt-minion packages via Salt itself, right?

Yes, but not using a repo. So you'd need to build your own installer / updater inside of a Salt state. Totally possible, but not as simple as telling it to update.

So forget my comments. It turned out maybe your instructions are fine. (Maybe, maybe not. I don't know, but will reinstall using your instructions again just to verify.) My problem was that I was opening up the firewall ports in the wrong zone. The default Install I used made only 1 zone on the master called "FedoraServer." Opening ports on this zone solved the issue. See this post from this morning: https://mangolassi.it/topic/15620/salt-stack-communication-issues/2

@dgingerich @scottalanmiller sorry for the delay in a response from me. Working on a sev-1 at work at the moment so I'm only sporadically available. I'll be sure to take a look at this later when either the sev-1 clears up or my day is over.

@emad-r said in Automatically Add New Vultr Fedora Minion to Salt Master:

@scottalanmiller said in Automatically Add New Vultr Fedora Minion to Salt Master:

If you are using Vultr as your VPS or Cloud Computing IaaS platform, then you have some simple tools to make automating a Salt Minion installation even easier. Vultr allows for "boot scripts" which run upon initial VM creation, along with their automatically installed system keys. Adding a tiny script can make all of the difference between needing to set up a new VM and having the entire process be totally automated.

Here is an example script that you can use. Notice that this is for Fedora and uses DNF. You will need a similar script for APT, YUM or other package management systems.

#!/bin/sh dnf -y install salt-minion echo "master: you.salt.master" >> /etc/salt/minion systemctl restart salt-minion systemctl enable salt-minion

That's all that it takes. Select the script when building your VM(s) and look for them to auto-populate in your Salt Master's key request list.

But what will be the ID/name of this Fedora instance in salt master ?

LOL, I got confused. Was thinking we were on Sodium, not salt.

It'll be your hostname.