Installation

The Salt system setup is amazingly simple, as this is one of the central design goals of Salt.

See also

Installing Salt for development and contributing to the project.

Quick Install

Many popular distributions will be able to install the salt minion by executing the bootstrap script:

wget -O - http://bootstrap.saltstack.org | sudo sh

The script should also make it simple to install a salt master, if desired.

Currently the install script supports:

  • Ubuntu 10.x/11.x/12.x
  • Debian 6.x
  • CentOS 6.3
  • Fedora
  • Arch
  • FreeBSD 9.0

See Salt Bootstrap for more information.

Platform-specific installation instructions

These guides go into detail how to install salt on a given platform.

Dependencies

Salt should run on any Unix-like platform so long as the dependencies are met.

Optional Dependencies

  • Jinja2 - parsing Salt States (configurable in the master settings)
  • gcc - dynamic Cython module compiling

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