Learning SaltStack - Second Edition

Masterless Salt

In this chapter, we've taken the time to set up Salt in a master-minion relationship. This will allow us to take advantage of all the power of Salt and scale to multiple minions easily later on. However, Salt is also designed so that a minion can run without a master.

We'll run through a few examples of how to run commands on a minion. This will also be useful even when we do have a master because if we're logged into a minion for some reason and want to run a command while we're there, we can do so using these same concepts.

To start, we'll leave our master running. The command used to run commands on the minion is salt-call, and it can take any of the same execution module functions that we used with the salt command, as follows: ...