FreeBSD

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

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

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

pkg install py27-salt

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

SaltStack repo

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

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

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

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

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

Master

Copy the sample configuration file:

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

rc.conf

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

sysrc salt_master_enable="YES"

Start the Master

Start the Salt Master as follows:

service salt_master start

Minion

Copy the sample configuration file:

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

rc.conf

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

sysrc salt_minion_enable="YES"

Start the Minion

Start the Salt Minion as follows:

service salt_minion start

Now go to the Configuring Salt page.

Docs for previous releases are available on readthedocs.org.

Latest Salt release: 2015.8.3

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