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Halite Debian Install Notes

gargolito opened this issue · 2 comments

gargolito commented

Not a problem but I had some issues installing Halite on debian 7.7 and this is how I troubleshoot and resolved.

The installation info from docs.saltstack.com fail at some points due to undocumented missing libraries, the steps below should succesfully complete the installation.

  1. apt-get install libffi-dev gcc python-dev libevent-dev python-pip
  2. curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/ez_setup.py | python
  3. pip install -U halite pyopenssl gevent CherryPy paste

Do only steps 3.6.1.3 and 3.6.1.4 from http://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/tutorials/halite.html
make sure you do: salt-call tls.create_self_signed_cert tls

At this point you have everything you need, but Halite will not start. After following the troubleshooting steps from #166 I discovered that on starting salt-master, the webserver was asking for the PEM password. To resolve this just strip the PEM password from the key file:

  1. cd /etc/pki/tls/certs/
  2. mv localhost.key localhost.key.pw
  3. openssl rsa -in localhost.key.pw -out localhost.key
  4. /etc/init.d/salt-master restart
tbaschak commented

Thanks for the tip about removing the password from the key.

rallytime commented

This repo is deprecated and archived. Therefore, this issue is now closed. Thank you.