How to Install Salt on Elementary OS Latest

Salt is a powerful and easy-to-use configuration management system, which is available as open source software from SaltStack website. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing Salt on the latest version of the Elementary OS.

Prerequisites

• An Elementary OS Latest installation with sudo privileges.
• A terminal/command prompt window.

Installing Salt on Elementary OS Latest

1. Open the terminal window.
2. Update the package list to ensure you have the latest repositories:

sudo apt-get update

3. Install the Salt repository key:

sudo apt-get install -y curl
curl -fsSL https://repo.saltstack.com/apt/ubuntu/20.04/amd64/latest/SALTSTACK-GPG-KEY.pub | sudo apt-key add -

4. Add the Salt repository:

echo "deb http://repo.saltstack.com/apt/ubuntu/20.04/amd64/latest focal main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/saltstack.list

5. Refresh the package list again:

sudo apt-get update

6. Now you are ready to install Salt. To install the salt-master and salt-minion packages:

sudo apt-get install salt-master salt-minion

7. If you only need to install salt-minion, run the following command:

sudo apt-get install salt-minion

8. Once the installation is complete, start the Salt services:

sudo systemctl start salt-master.service
sudo systemctl start salt-minion.service

9. You can also enable the Salt services to automatically start at boot:

sudo systemctl enable salt-master.service
sudo systemctl enable salt-minion.service

10. Verify that the Salt services are running, use the following command:

sudo systemctl status salt-master
sudo systemctl status salt-minion

Conclusion

Salt is now successfully installed on your Elementary OS Latest installation. Make use of Salt Stack's configuration management system to maintain the configuration and integrity of your infrastructure configurations.

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