FreeBSD¶
Salt was added to the FreeBSD ports tree Dec 26th, 2011 by Christer Edwards <christer.edwards@gmail.com>. It has been tested on FreeBSD 7.4, 8.2, 9.0 and 9.1 releases.
Salt is dependent on the following additional ports. These will be installed as
dependencies of the sysutils/py-salt port:
/devel/py-yaml
/devel/py-pyzmq
/devel/py-Jinja2
/devel/py-msgpack
/security/py-pycrypto
/security/py-m2crypto
Installation¶
On FreeBSD 10 and later, to install Salt from the FreeBSD pkgng repo, use the command:
pkg install py27-salt
On older versions of FreeBSD, to install Salt from the FreeBSD ports tree, use the command:
make -C /usr/ports/sysutils/py-salt install clean
Post-installation tasks¶
Master
Copy the sample configuration file:
cp /usr/local/etc/salt/master.sample /usr/local/etc/salt/master
rc.conf
Activate the Salt Master in /etc/rc.conf or /etc/rc.conf.local and add:
+ salt_master_enable="YES"
Start the Master
Start the Salt Master as follows:
service salt_master start
Minion
Copy the sample configuration file:
cp /usr/local/etc/salt/minion.sample /usr/local/etc/salt/minion
rc.conf
Activate the Salt Minion in /etc/rc.conf or /etc/rc.conf.local and add:
+ salt_minion_enable="YES"
+ salt_minion_paths="/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin"
Start the Minion
Start the Salt Minion as follows:
service salt_minion start
Now go to the Configuring Salt page.
