Salt Bootstrap

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

Supported Operating Systems

  • Amazon Linux 2012.09
  • Arch
  • CentOS 5/6
  • Debian 6.x/7.x
  • Fedora 17/18
  • FreeBSD 9.1
  • Gentoo
  • Linaro
  • Linux Mint 13/14
  • OpenSUSE 12.x
  • Red Hat 5/6
  • Red Hat Enterprise 5/6
  • SmartOS
  • SuSE 11 SP1/11 SP2
  • Ubuntu 10.x/11.x/12.x/13.04

Note

In the event you do not see your distribution or version available please review the develop branch on Github as it main contain updates that are not present in the stable release: https://github.com/saltstack/salt-bootstrap/tree/develop

Example Usage

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.

For example, using curl to install latest git:

curl -L http://bootstrap.saltstack.org | sudo sh -s -- git develop

If you have certificate issues using curl, try the following:

curl --insecure -L http://bootstrap.saltstack.org | sudo sh -s -- git develop

Using wget to install your distribution's stable packages:

wget -O - http://bootstrap.saltstack.org | sudo sh

If you have certificate issues using wget try the following:

wget --no-check-certificate -O - http://bootstrap.saltstack.org | sudo sh

Install a specific version from git using wget:

wget -O - http://bootstrap.saltstack.org | sh -s -- -P git v0.16.4

If you already have python installed, python 2.6, then it's as easy as:

python -m urllib "http://bootstrap.saltstack.org" | sudo sh -s -- git develop

All python versions should support the following one liner:

python -c 'import urllib; print urllib.urlopen("http://bootstrap.saltstack.org").read()' | \
sudo  sh -s -- 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 - http://bootstrap.saltstack.org | sudo sh

If all you want is to install a salt-master using latest git:

curl -L http://bootstrap.saltstack.org | sudo sh -s -- -M -N git develop

If you want to install a specific release version (based on the git tags):

curl -L http://bootstrap.saltstack.org | sudo sh -s -- git v0.16.4

Downloading the develop branch (from here standard command line options may be passed):

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/saltstack/salt-bootstrap/develop/bootstrap-salt.sh

Command Line Options

-h Display the help message and command line options.

-v Display script version.

-n No colours.

-D Show debug output.

-c Temporary configuration directory.

-k Temporary directory holding the minion keys which will pre-seed the master.

-M Also install salt-master.

-S Also install salt-syndic.

-N Do not install salt-minion.

-X Do not start daemons after installation.

-C Only run the configuration function. This option automatically bypasses any installation.

-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 works for functions which actually implement pip based installations.

-F Allow copied files to overwrite existing(config, init.d, etc).

-U If set, fully upgrade the system prior to bootstrapping salt.

-K If set, keep the temporary files in the temporary directories specified with -c and -k.

Current Salt release: 2014.1.6

Docs for previous releases on salt.rtfd.org.

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