Buildout for salt

Requirements

This new buildout.cfg here, relies on your Linux distributions packages-set, for Python modules of ZeroMQ, OpenSSL, M2Crypto, and Jinja2.

This install assumes an "up to date" Python2.7 environment, on a Fedora, OpenSUSE, Debian or Ubuntu distro.

Install

We need to "bootstrap" our buildout of Salt:

script -a -c "python2.7 bootstrap.py" build.log

And then run zc.buildout:

script -a -c "bin/buildout -vc buildout.cfg"  build.log

The Salt "main script" is in the bin/ directory.

Install.prev

Salt for CentOS 5.x, 6.x (and Debian 6.x?) needs a full Python 2.7 build, and you need to use install_develop.cfg in that case, and these packages

python-dev
swig
uuid-dev

NOTE: these are older build instructions, for bo_salt, for reference purposes.

First wee need to set a environment variabel or we wont get start scripts:

$ export USE_SETUPTOOLS=1

Run bootstrap:

$ python2.7 bootstrap.py -d

Add to buildout.cfg a section master:

[master]
#config
user = root #or current user
root_dir = ${buildout:directory}/etc
pki_dir = ${buildout:directory}/etc/salt/pki
log_file = ${buildout:directory}/var/log/master
cachedir = ${buildout:directory}/var/cache/salt
file_roots =
    base:
        - ${buildout:directory}/salt

Add to buildout.cfg a section minion-local:

[minion-local]
#config
user = root #or current user
root_dir = ${buildout:directory}/etc
pki_dir = ${buildout:directory}/etc/salt/pki
log_file = ${buildout:directory}/var/log/minion
cachedir = ${buildout:directory}/var/cache/salt
file_roots =
    base:
        - ${buildout:directory}/salt

Run buildout:

$ bin/buildout

Start master

First wee need to configure DNS to point to out salt master or simply add it to /etc/hosts:

$ vim /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 salt

Start master:

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

Start minion

Start minion:

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

Accpet "A"ll keys

The is a bug in salt-key so we need to specify a key-logfile:

$ bin/salt-key -A -c etc/master --key-logfile=foo

Call remote commands

This is our first try to call remote commands:

$ bin/salt -c etc/master '*'  cmd.exec_code python 'import sys; print sys.version

Minionswarm

To try more than one minion we can use the script minionswarm.py, but need it to run as root. There is a issues withc supports script-root. saltstack/salt#2004

Run master:

$ sudo bin/salt-master

Run minionswarm:

$ wget https://raw.github.com/saltstack/salt/develop/tests/minionswarm.py
$ sudo bin/py minionswarm.py --script-root `pwd`/bin/

Accept keys:

$ sudo bin/salt-keys -A

Run remote command:

sudo bin/salt '*' test.ping

biggers/bo_salt