Installing Salt

Abstract

To be able to learn Salt, perhaps we are best advised to install the product, building a fine foundation for our education. In this chapter, we will establish the lab setup being used in the book. You, naturally, do not need to use exactly the same setup, but you get to see and understand what I am using. Once we have the lab complete, we can identify the different options available to install Salt. We will be using the bootstrap installer script to configure both the Salt Master and Salt Minion. Later we will see how we can add repositories to other systems remotely using salt-ssh, adding a third system to manage with Salt. When we look at salt-proxy, I will be using a local Aruba physical switch running ArubaOS and a virtual Arista router running EOS. These are optional if you do not want to manage network devices.