salt/doc/topics/installation/freebsd.rst

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FreeBSD
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Salt was added to the FreeBSD ports tree Dec 26th, 2011 by Christer Edwards
<christer.edwards@gmail.com>. It has been tested on FreeBSD 7.4, 8.2, 9.0,
9.1, 10.0 and later releases.

Installation
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Salt is available in binary package form from both the FreeBSD pkgng repository
or directly from SaltStack. The instructions below outline installation via
both methods:

FreeBSD repo
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The FreeBSD pkgng repository is preconfigured on systems 10.x and above. No
configuration is needed to pull from these repositories. 

.. code-block:: shell

    pkg install py27-salt

These packages are usually available within a few days of upstream release.

SaltStack repo
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SaltStack also hosts internal binary builds of the Salt package, available from
http://repo.saltstack.org/freebsd/. To make use of this repository, add the
following file to your system:

**/usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/saltstack.conf:**

.. code-block:: json 

    saltstack: {
      url: "http://repo.saltstack.org/freebsd/${ABI}/",
      mirror_type: "srv",
      enabled: yes
      priority: 10
    }

You should now be able to install Salt from this new repository:

.. code-block:: shell

    pkg install py27-salt

These packages are usually available earlier than upstream FreeBSD. Also
available are release candidates and development releases. Use these pre-release
packages with caution.

Post-installation tasks
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**Master**

Copy the sample configuration file:

.. code-block:: shell

   cp /usr/local/etc/salt/master.sample /usr/local/etc/salt/master

**rc.conf**

Activate the Salt Master in ``/etc/rc.conf``:

.. code-block:: shell

   sysrc salt_master_enable="YES"

**Start the Master**

Start the Salt Master as follows:

.. code-block:: shell

   service salt_master start

**Minion**

Copy the sample configuration file:

.. code-block:: shell

   cp /usr/local/etc/salt/minion.sample /usr/local/etc/salt/minion

**rc.conf**

Activate the Salt Minion in ``/etc/rc.conf``:

.. code-block:: shell

   sysrc salt_minion_enable="YES"

**Start the Minion**

Start the Salt Minion as follows:

.. code-block:: shell

   service salt_minion start

Now go to the :doc:`Configuring Salt</ref/configuration/index>` page.