How would I or is there a process for migrating a Salt master to a new server?

[gzcwnk]

Description of Issue/Question

I need to move my existing salt-master off a RHEL6 server to a new RHEL7 server. If possible I'd like to keep the keys and any other config etc so ideally I want to be able to simply change the DNS record and have clients connect tot the new server and work OK. is this possible? and if so how?

[Ch3LL]

You will need to rsync files in /etc/salt/ and of course any other files you want to migrate for your salt instance such as your pillar and file roots to the new server. I did find this issue here #10032 that will impact your planned migration so you will need to workaround this. I am guessing you could possibly schedule a minion restart with cron? So for example run a state that adds a cron job or uses the salt scheduler that will restart the minion service in 30-60 minutes, migrate the server and wait for minions to start coming online. There is also another workaround posted #10032 (comment) but some users reported that it did not work.

[gzcwnk]

thanks, seems salt needs a new version of python 2.7 which is breaking RHEL6 satellite badly as it uses python 2.6.6 so this needs to happen :(

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