Salt

Salt Configuration Management

Links

• Homepage
• Documentation
• Getting Started with Salt Stack
• An Introduction to SaltStack Terminology and Concepts
• Managing Linux server configs with the SaltStack
• Cheat Sheet
• Salt - Beginners Tutorial
• https://rizvir.com/articles/saltstack/

Tools

• Vim bundle for salt

FAQ

Change minion hostname

On minion:

• hostname new.host.name
• update /etc/hostname
• restart salt-minion

On master: rename the key ( /srv/salt/pki/master/minions/old.host.name )

==Rendering SLS 'base:roles.foo.bar' failed: Jinja variable 'dict object' has no attribute 'blergh' Unless you made a typo, your minion probably doesn't have access in pillar