baijum/salt-buildout

Buildout for Salt Installation

Buildout for Salt

Basic Installation using the offline buildout

If you have downloaded the offline buildout tarball from GitHub follow instruction in this section.

1. Using the system package management tool, install gcc, swig, zlib and other basic development libraries.

2. Run installpy27.sh

   ./installpy27.sh
   

3. Run install.py

   ./usr/bin/python2.7 install.py
   

Basic Installation using the online buildout

This instruction is for those who trying to install Salt directly from the clone of github repo.

1. Using the system package management tool, install gcc, swig, zlib and other basic development libraries.

2. Run installpy27.sh

   ./installpy27.sh
   

3. Run bootstrap..py

   ./usr/bin/python2.7 bootstrap.py
   

4. Run buildout

   ./bin/buildout -c linux.cfg
   

Running Master

1. Copy etc/master.template to etc/master

   cp etc/master.template etc/master
   

2. Edit etc/master and change default settings, if required.

3. Run Salt master

   ./bin/salt-master -c etc/master -l debug
   

Running Minion

1. Copy etc/minion.template to etc/minion

   cp etc/minion.template etc/minion
   

2. Edit etc/minion and change default settings, if required.

3. Run Salt minion

   ./bin/salt-minion -c etc/minion -l debug