OpenBSD¶

Salt was added to the OpenBSD ports tree on Aug 10th 2013. It has been tested on OpenBSD 5.5 onwards.

Salt is dependent on the following additional ports. These will be installed as dependencies of the sysutils/salt port:

devel/py-futures
devel/py-progressbar
net/py-msgpack
net/py-zmq
security/py-crypto
security/py-M2Crypto
textproc/py-MarkupSafe
textproc/py-yaml
www/py-jinja2
www/py-requests
www/py-tornado

Installation¶

To install Salt from the OpenBSD pkg repo, use the command:

pkg_add salt

Post-installation tasks¶

Master

To have the Master start automatically at boot time:

rcctl enable salt_master

To start the Master:

rcctl start salt_master

Minion

To have the Minion start automatically at boot time:

rcctl enable salt_minion

To start the Minion:

rcctl start salt_minion

Now go to the Configuring Salt page.