For information about installing the Salt minion service on RedHat Linux or CentOS, see Required SaltStack Config dependencies.Īfter installing the Salt minion service:.The process for installing the Salt minion service using SSH depends on the operating system running on those nodes. Installing the Salt minion service through SSH vSphere machines that are deployed to a private network must be able to initiate a connection with SaltStack Config integration and the Salt master.Nodes that are managed by SaltStack Config must be able to reach the Salt master and must reside on the same network as the SaltStack Config integration point and the Salt master.

Install and configure the SaltStack Config and integrate it with vRealize Automation.You must also register the minions by sending and accepting their keys to SaltStack Config. You can deploy minions from vRealize Automation cloud templates.īefore you can begin using SaltStack Config for configuration management, you must first install the Salt minion service on all nodes that you want to manage. The service listens to commands from a Salt master and performs the requested tasks. Minions are nodes that run the salt-minion service. When a minion finishes executing a job, it sends job return data back to the master. When a specific job applies to that minion, it executes the job. The master publishes jobs that need to be executed and minions subscribe to those jobs. It issues commands to one or more Salt minions, which are nodes that are running the Salt minion service and that are registered with that particular master.Īnother way to describe Salt is as a publisher-subscriber model. In the Salt ecosystem, the controller is a server that is running the Salt master service. Salt uses the controller-client model in which a controller issues commands to a client and the client executes the command. SaltStack Config enhances and extends Salt, providing additional functionality and features that improve ease of use. Salt is the technology that underlies the core functionality of SaltStack Config. SaltStack Config runs on Salt, a Python-based open-source remote execution framework used for: Salt and its relationship to SaltStack Config You can deploy the Salt minion service to your nodes using either vRealize Automation cloud templates or by installing the service through Secure Shell (SSH). After you have installed and integrated the SaltStack Config service, you also need to install, run, and register the Salt minion service on any nodes that you intend to manage using SaltStack Config.

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