Learning SaltStack

Installing Salt

The dependencies for running Salt at the time of writing are as follows:

• Python 2—Version 2.6 or greater (not Python 3-compatible)
• msgpack-python
• YAML
• Jinja2
• MarkupSafe
• Apache Libcloud
• Requests
• ZeroMQ—Version 3.2.0 or greater
• PyZMQ—Version 2.2.0 or greater
• PyCrypto
• M2Crypto

The easiest way to ensure that the dependencies for Salt are met is to use system-specific package management systems, such as apt on Ubuntu systems, that will handle the dependency-resolution automatically. You can also use a script called Salt-Bootstrap to handle all of the system-specific commands for you. Salt-Bootstrap is an open source project with the goal of creating a Bourne shell-compatible script that will install Salt on any compatible server. The project is ...