![]() ![]() So for the purposes of documentating compatibility, Salt will pretty much run on any flavour of Linux. You should then be able to go into Minion Keys > Accepted and see both your saltmaster and new minion: How to Install on Linux You should see your server available to accept Once you’ve done that, head on into your SaltStack Config (SSC) console, and click into Minon Keys > Pending. Or use the exe, click through the install just providing the name of your master (IP or FQDN) and the name of the minion (however you refer to it in your business) Either run an install via cmdline using the following Salt-Minion-3004-2-P圓-AMD64-Setup.exe /S /master= /minion-name=test1 Head over to the saltproject website and either download the. Once you’ve got the master up, you’ll want to add a couple of minions to start testing / having some fun. Minion Installation How to Install on Windows Linux / Unix / RaspPi / Windows / Network Equipment Technically though, there are some major differences, I thought it be useful to call out some of the differences: I think its right that I call out at this point the main differences between Salt (the open source version of Salt) and SaltStack Config.įirstly, Salt Open is completely free to use, and will continue to be – VMware are the main sponsor behind this, and a majority of the contributors are actually VMware employees, so what I’m saying is that its not disappearing. But if not, here are some pretty simple instructions Enterprise vs Open Source I’ll assume at this point that you’ve already built your master or have it hosted by VMware as part of vRA Cloud. tl:dr – its fast, reliable and works on near enough every OS. The underlying communication is done by the ZeroMQ messagebus, an open source messenging library, which is multi-OS and is built asyncronously giving a scalable, fast communication method. Salt requires only 2 ports to be open on the minions, TCP 4505 & 4506. The agent is deemed more secure, given that you don’t have to leave the SSH service running but it works either way. ![]() Unlike Ansible which is agentless, but relies on SSH, Salt has the option of either using the minion agent or using SSH as a fallback. Saltstack configurations are made on what is termed a ‘master’, essentially a console (hosted either in the cloud by VMware or on prem, by you) and each target is given the term minion, essentially this is a publisher-subscriber model. Audit your estate against well-known compliance standards, such as CIS benchmark. ![]() Keep software up to date, and also scan your estate against known vulnerabilities.Set a standard or ‘desired state’ across individual servers, groups of servers, or all of your environment.Deploy and configure software and systems as code, whether it be Windows, Linux, Mac or Unix.Essentially, you can use SaltStack Config to: What does that mean aside from the marketing buzzwords. So what does it do? Essentially it’s main functions are software automation, configuration management and security. In fact, if you’re a follower of this blog, you’ll know I did a little bit of Ansible a year or so back. Firstly, you’re likely to have heard of some of Salt’s competitors, Ansible, Puppet or Chef. If you’re new to this line of IT, I will explain a little bit about its capabilities. More than 2,100 unqiue contributors (with 300 just this year).To give you some interesting stats on Salt (I was amazed by these!): VMware bought SaltStack in October 2020 to become an ‘integral part of the vRealize Automation product line’ and a year later that is very much happening. Let’s get right into this, what is Saltstack Config? Previously, the product was known as SaltStack Enterprise, based on the popular and well-established opensource Salt (which is still very popular I’d like to add) and originated from way back in 2011. Since then, VMware have been integrating it into its vRA (vRealize Automation Platform), and you can now manage your infrastructure from the cloud. ![]() Roughly 12 months ago VMware completed the purchase of Salt, a configuration management platform, based on open source tech. ![]()
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