The Salt Bootstrap script allows for a user to install the Salt Minion or Master on a variety of system distributions and versions. This shell script known as bootstrap-salt.sh
runs through a series of checks to determine the operating system type and version. It then installs the Salt binaries using the appropriate methods. The Salt Bootstrap script installs the minimum number of packages required to run Salt. This means that in the event you run the bootstrap to install via package, Git will not be installed. Installing the minimum number of packages helps ensure the script stays as lightweight as possible, assuming the user will install any other required packages after the Salt binaries are present on the system. The script source is available on GitHub: https://github.com/saltstack/salt-bootstrap
Note
In the event you do not see your distribution or version available please review the develop branch on GitHub as it may contain updates that are not present in the stable release: https://github.com/saltstack/salt-bootstrap/tree/develop
- Debian GNU/Linux 7/8
- Linux Mint Debian Edition 1 (based on Debian 8)
- Kali Linux 1.0 (based on Debian 7)
- Amazon Linux 2012.09/2013.03/2013.09/2014.03/2014.09
- CentOS 5/6/7
- Fedora 17/18/20/21/22
- Oracle Linux 5/6/7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5/6/7
- Scientific Linux 5/6/7
- openSUSE 12/13
- openSUSE Leap 42
- openSUSE Tumbleweed 2015
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1/11 SP2/11 SP3/12
- Elementary OS 0.2 (based on Ubuntu 12.04)
- Linaro 12.04
- Linux Mint 13/14/16/17
- Trisquel GNU/Linux 6 (based on Ubuntu 12.04)
- Ubuntu 10.x/11.x/12.x/13.x/14.x/15.x/16.x
- Arch Linux
- Gentoo
BSD:
- OpenBSD
- FreeBSD 9/10/11
SunOS:
- SmartOS
If you're looking for the one-liner to install Salt, please scroll to the bottom and use the instructions for Installing via an Insecure One-Liner
Note
In every two-step example, you would be well-served to examine the downloaded file and examine it to ensure that it does what you expect.
The Salt Bootstrap script has a wide variety of options that can be passed as well as several ways of obtaining the bootstrap script itself.
Note
These examples below show how to bootstrap Salt directly from GitHub or other Git repository. Run the script without any parameters to get latest stable Salt packages for your system from SaltStack corporate repository. See first example in the Install using wget section.
Using curl
to install latest development version from GitHub:
curl -o bootstrap-salt.sh -L https://bootstrap.saltstack.com
sudo sh bootstrap-salt.sh git develop
If you want to install a specific release version (based on the Git tags):
curl -o bootstrap-salt.sh -L https://bootstrap.saltstack.com
sudo sh bootstrap-salt.sh git v2015.8.8
To install a specific branch from a Git fork:
curl -o bootstrap-salt.sh -L https://bootstrap.saltstack.com
sudo sh bootstrap-salt.sh -g https://github.com/myuser/salt.git git mybranch
If all you want is to install a salt-master
using latest Git:
curl -o bootstrap-salt.sh -L https://bootstrap.saltstack.com
sudo sh bootstrap-salt.sh -M -N git develop
If your host has Internet access only via HTTP proxy:
PROXY='http://user:password@myproxy.example.com:3128'
curl -o bootstrap-salt.sh -L -x "$PROXY" https://bootstrap.saltstack.com
sudo sh bootstrap-salt.sh -G -H "$PROXY" git
Using wget
to install your distribution's stable packages:
wget -O bootstrap-salt.sh https://bootstrap.saltstack.com
sudo sh bootstrap-salt.sh
Downloading the script from develop branch:
wget -O bootstrap-salt.sh https://bootstrap.saltstack.com/develop
sudo sh bootstrap-salt.sh
Installing a specific version from git using wget
:
wget -O bootstrap-salt.sh https://bootstrap.saltstack.com
sudo sh bootstrap-salt.sh -P git v2015.8.8
Note
On the above example we added -P which will allow PIP packages to be installed if required but it's not a necessary flag for Git based bootstraps.
If you already have Python installed, python 2.6
, then it's as easy as:
python -m urllib "https://bootstrap.saltstack.com" > bootstrap-salt.sh
sudo sh bootstrap-salt.sh git develop
All Python versions should support the following in-line code:
python -c 'import urllib; print urllib.urlopen("https://bootstrap.saltstack.com").read()' > bootstrap-salt.sh
sudo sh bootstrap-salt.sh git develop
On a FreeBSD base system you usually don't have either of the above binaries available. You do have fetch
available though:
fetch -o bootstrap-salt.sh https://bootstrap.saltstack.com
sudo sh bootstrap-salt.sh
If you have any SSL issues install ca_root_nssp
:
pkg install ca_root_nssp
And either copy the certificates to the place where fetch can find them:
cp /usr/local/share/certs/ca-root-nss.crt /etc/ssl/cert.pem
Or link them to the right place:
ln -s /usr/local/share/certs/ca-root-nss.crt /etc/ssl/cert.pem
The following examples illustrate how to install Salt via a one-liner.
Note
Warning! These methods do not involve a verification step and assume that the delivered file is trustworthy.
Any of the example above which use two-lines can be made to run in a single-line configuration with minor modifications.
For example, using curl
to install your distribution's stable packages:
curl -L https://bootstrap.saltstack.com | sudo sh
Using wget
to install your distribution's stable packages:
wget -O - https://bootstrap.saltstack.com | sudo sh
Installing the latest develop branch of Salt:
curl -L https://bootstrap.saltstack.com | sudo sh -s -- git develop
Here's a summary of the command line options:
$ sh bootstrap-salt.sh -h
Installation types:
- stable Install latest stable release. This is the default
install type
- stable [branch] Install latest version on a branch. Only supported
for packages available at repo.saltstack.com
- stable [version] Install a specific version. Only supported for
packages available at repo.saltstack.com
- daily Ubuntu specific: configure SaltStack Daily PPA
- testing RHEL-family specific: configure EPEL testing repo
- git Install from the head of the develop branch
- git [ref] Install from any git ref (such as a branch, tag, or
commit)
Examples:
- bootstrap-salt.sh
- bootstrap-salt.sh stable
- bootstrap-salt.sh stable 2017.7
- bootstrap-salt.sh stable 2017.7.2
- bootstrap-salt.sh daily
- bootstrap-salt.sh testing
- bootstrap-salt.sh git
- bootstrap-salt.sh git 2017.7
- bootstrap-salt.sh git v2017.7.2
- bootstrap-salt.sh git 06f249901a2e2f1ed310d58ea3921a129f214358
Options:
-h Display this message
-v Display script version
-n No colours
-D Show debug output
-c Temporary configuration directory
-g Salt Git repository URL. Default: https://github.com/saltstack/salt.git
-w Install packages from downstream package repository rather than
upstream, saltstack package repository. This is currently only
implemented for SUSE.
-k Temporary directory holding the minion keys which will pre-seed
the master.
-s Sleep time used when waiting for daemons to start, restart and when
checking for the services running. Default: 3
-L Also install salt-cloud and required python-libcloud package
-M Also install salt-master
-S Also install salt-syndic
-N Do not install salt-minion
-X Do not start daemons after installation
-d Disables checking if Salt services are enabled to start on system boot.
You can also do this by touching /tmp/disable_salt_checks on the target
host. Default: ${BS_FALSE}
-P Allow pip based installations. On some distributions the required salt
packages or its dependencies are not available as a package for that
distribution. Using this flag allows the script to use pip as a last
resort method. NOTE: This only works for functions which actually
implement pip based installations.
-U If set, fully upgrade the system prior to bootstrapping Salt
-I If set, allow insecure connections while downloading any files. For
example, pass '--no-check-certificate' to 'wget' or '--insecure' to
'curl'. On Debian and Ubuntu, using this option with -U allows to obtain
GnuPG archive keys insecurely if distro has changed release signatures.
-F Allow copied files to overwrite existing (config, init.d, etc)
-K If set, keep the temporary files in the temporary directories specified
with -c and -k
-C Only run the configuration function. Implies -F (forced overwrite).
To overwrite Master or Syndic configs, -M or -S, respectively, must
also be specified. Salt installation will be ommitted, but some of the
dependencies could be installed to write configuration with -j or -J.
-A Pass the salt-master DNS name or IP. This will be stored under
${BS_SALT_ETC_DIR}/minion.d/99-master-address.conf
-i Pass the salt-minion id. This will be stored under
${BS_SALT_ETC_DIR}/minion_id
-p Extra-package to install while installing Salt dependencies. One package
per -p flag. You're responsible for providing the proper package name.
-H Use the specified HTTP proxy for all download URLs (including https://).
For example: http://myproxy.example.com:3128
-Z Enable additional package repository for newer ZeroMQ
(only available for RHEL/CentOS/Fedora/Ubuntu based distributions)
-b Assume that dependencies are already installed and software sources are
set up. If git is selected, git tree is still checked out as dependency
step.
-f Force shallow cloning for git installations.
This may result in an "n/a" in the version number.
-l Disable ssl checks. When passed, switches "https" calls to "http" where
possible.
-V Install Salt into virtualenv
(only available for Ubuntu based distributions)
-a Pip install all Python pkg dependencies for Salt. Requires -V to install
all pip pkgs into the virtualenv.
(Only available for Ubuntu based distributions)
-r Disable all repository configuration performed by this script. This
option assumes all necessary repository configuration is already present
on the system.
-R Specify a custom repository URL. Assumes the custom repository URL
points to a repository that mirrors Salt packages located at
repo.saltstack.com. The option passed with -R replaces the
"repo.saltstack.com". If -R is passed, -r is also set. Currently only
works on CentOS/RHEL and Debian based distributions.
-J Replace the Master config file with data passed in as a JSON string. If
a Master config file is found, a reasonable effort will be made to save
the file with a ".bak" extension. If used in conjunction with -C or -F,
no ".bak" file will be created as either of those options will force
a complete overwrite of the file.
-j Replace the Minion config file with data passed in as a JSON string. If
a Minion config file is found, a reasonable effort will be made to save
the file with a ".bak" extension. If used in conjunction with -C or -F,
no ".bak" file will be created as either of those options will force
a complete overwrite of the file.
-q Quiet salt installation from git (setup.py install -q)
-x Changes the python version used to install a git version of salt. Currently
this is considered experimental and has only been tested on Centos 6. This
only works for git installations.
-y Installs a different python version on host. Currently this has only been
tested with Centos 6 and is considered experimental. This will install the
ius repo on the box if disable repo is false. This must be used in conjunction
with -x <pythonversion>. For example:
sh bootstrap.sh -P -y -x python2.7 git v2016.11.3
The above will install python27 and install the git version of salt using the
python2.7 executable. This only works for git and pip installations.