============== Salt Bootstrap ============== The Salt Bootstrap script allows for a user to install the Salt Minion or Master on a variety of system distributions and versions. This shell script known as ``bootstrap-salt.sh`` runs through a series of checks to determine the operating system type and version. It then installs the Salt binaries using the appropriate methods. The Salt Bootstrap script installs the minimum number of packages required to run Salt. This means that in the event you run the bootstrap to install via package, Git will not be installed. Installing the minimum number of packages helps ensure the script stays as lightweight as possible, assuming the user will install any other required packages after the Salt binaries are present on the system. The script source is available on GitHub: https://github.com/saltstack/salt-bootstrap Supported Operating Systems --------------------------- - Amazon Linux 2012.09 - Arch - CentOS 5/6 - Debian 6.x/7.x - Fedora 17/18 - FreeBSD 9.1 - Gentoo - Linaro - Linux Mint 13/14 - OpenSUSE 12.x - Red Hat 5/6 - Red Hat Enterprise 5/6 - SmartOS - SuSE 11 SP1/11 SP2 - Ubuntu 10.x/11.x/12.x/13.04 .. note:: In the event you do not see your distribution or version available please review the develop branch on Github as it main contain updates that are not present in the stable release: https://github.com/saltstack/salt-bootstrap/tree/develop Example Usage ------------- The Salt Bootstrap script has a wide variety of options that can be passed as well as several ways of obtaining the bootstrap script itself. For example, using ``curl`` to install your distribution's stable packages: .. code-block:: bash curl -L http://bootstrap.saltstack.org | sudo sh Using ``wget`` to install your distribution's stable packages: .. code-block:: bash wget -O - http://bootstrap.saltstack.org | sudo sh Installing the latest version available from git with ``curl``: .. code-block:: bash curl -L http://bootstrap.saltstack.org | sudo sh -s -- git develop If you have certificate issues using ``curl``, try the following: .. code-block:: bash curl --insecure -L http://bootstrap.saltstack.org | sudo sh -s -- git develop If you have certificate issues using ``wget`` try the following: .. code-block:: bash wget --no-check-certificate -O - http://bootstrap.saltstack.org | sudo sh Install a specific version from git using ``wget``: .. code-block:: bash wget -O - http://bootstrap.saltstack.org | sh -s -- -P git v0.16.4 If you already have python installed, ``python 2.6``, then it's as easy as: .. code-block:: bash python -m urllib "http://bootstrap.saltstack.org" | sudo sh -s -- git develop All python versions should support the following one liner: .. code-block:: bash python -c 'import urllib; print urllib.urlopen("http://bootstrap.saltstack.org").read()' | \ sudo sh -s -- git develop On a FreeBSD base system you usually don't have either of the above binaries available. You **do** have ``fetch`` available though: .. code-block:: bash fetch -o - http://bootstrap.saltstack.org | sudo sh If all you want is to install a ``salt-master`` using latest git: .. code-block:: bash curl -L http://bootstrap.saltstack.org | sudo sh -s -- -M -N git develop If you want to install a specific release version (based on the git tags): .. code-block:: bash curl -L http://bootstrap.saltstack.org | sudo sh -s -- git v0.16.4 Downloading the develop branch (from here standard command line options may be passed): .. code-block:: bash wget https://raw.github.com/saltstack/salt-bootstrap/develop/bootstrap-salt.sh Command Line Options -------------------- Here's a summary of the command line options (and how check them against ``http://bootstrap.saltstack.org``):: $ sh bootstrap-salt.sh -h Usage : bootstrap-salt.sh [options] Installation types: - stable (default) - daily (ubuntu specific) - git Examples: $ bootstrap-salt.sh $ bootstrap-salt.sh stable $ bootstrap-salt.sh daily $ bootstrap-salt.sh git $ bootstrap-salt.sh git develop $ bootstrap-salt.sh git v0.17.0 $ bootstrap-salt.sh git 8c3fadf15ec183e5ce8c63739850d543617e4357 Options: -h Display this message -v Display script version -n No colours. -D Show debug output. -c Temporary configuration directory -g Salt repository URL. (default: git://github.com/saltstack/salt.git) -k Temporary directory holding the minion keys which will pre-seed the master. -M Also install salt-master -S Also install salt-syndic -N Do not install salt-minion -X Do not start daemons after installation -C Only run the configuration function. This option automatically bypasses any installation. -P Allow pip based installations. On some distributions the required salt packages or its dependencies are not available as a package for that distribution. Using this flag allows the script to use pip as a last resort method. NOTE: This only works for functions which actually implement pip based installations. -F Allow copied files to overwrite existing(config, init.d, etc) -U If set, fully upgrade the system prior to bootstrapping salt -K If set, keep the temporary files in the temporary directories specified with -c and -k. -I If set, allow insecure connections while downloading any files. For example, pass '--no-check-certificate' to 'wget' or '--insecure' to 'curl' -A Pass the salt-master DNS name or IP. This will be stored under ${BS_SALT_ETC_DIR}/minion.d/99-master-address.conf -i Pass the salt-minion id. This will be stored under ${BS_SALT_ETC_DIR}/minion_id -L Install the Apache Libcloud package if possible(required for salt-cloud) -p Extra-package to install while installing salt dependencies. One package per -p flag. You're responsible for providing the proper package name.