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Downloads:
45,715
Downloads of v 2019.2.0:
7,041
Last Update:
26 Feb 2019
Package Maintainer(s):
Software Author(s):
- SaltStack
Tags:
salt minion admin saltstack
Salt Minion
This is not the latest version of Salt Minion available.
Downloads:
45,715
Downloads of v 2019.2.0:
7,041
Maintainer(s):
Software Author(s):
- SaltStack
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Salt Minion 2019.2.0
This is not the latest version of Salt Minion available.
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To install Salt Minion, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:
To upgrade Salt Minion, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:
To uninstall Salt Minion, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:
NOTE: This applies to both open source and commercial editions of Chocolatey.
1. Ensure you are set for organizational deployment
Please see the organizational deployment guide
2. Get the package into your environment-
Open Source or Commercial:
- Proxy Repository - Create a proxy nuget repository on Nexus, Artifactory Pro, or a proxy Chocolatey repository on ProGet. Point your upstream to https://chocolatey.org/api/v2. Packages cache on first access automatically. Make sure your choco clients are using your proxy repository as a source and NOT the default community repository. See source command for more information.
- You can also just download the package and push it to a repository Download
-
Open Source
- Download the Package Download
- Follow manual internalization instructions
-
Package Internalizer (C4B)
- Run
choco download saltminion --internalize --version=2019.2.0 --source=https://chocolatey.org/api/v2
(additional options) - Run
choco push --source="'http://internal/odata/repo'"
for package and dependencies - Automate package internalization
- Run
3. Enter your internal repository url
(this should look similar to https://chocolatey.org/api/v2)
4. Choose your deployment method:
choco upgrade saltminion -y --source="'STEP 3 URL'" [other options]
See options you can pass to upgrade.
See best practices for scripting.
Add this to a PowerShell script or use a Batch script with tools and in places where you are calling directly to Chocolatey. If you are integrating, keep in mind enhanced exit codes.
If you do use a PowerShell script, use the following to ensure bad exit codes are shown as failures:
choco upgrade saltminion -y --source="'STEP 3 URL'"
$exitCode = $LASTEXITCODE
Write-Verbose "Exit code was $exitCode"
$validExitCodes = @(0, 1605, 1614, 1641, 3010)
if ($validExitCodes -contains $exitCode) {
Exit 0
}
Exit $exitCode
- name: Ensure saltminion installed
win_chocolatey:
name: saltminion
state: present
version: 2019.2.0
source: STEP 3 URL
See docs at https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/win_chocolatey_module.html.
Coming early 2020! Central Managment Reporting available now! More information...
chocolatey_package 'saltminion' do
action :install
version '2019.2.0'
source 'STEP 3 URL'
end
See docs at https://docs.chef.io/resource_chocolatey_package.html.
Chocolatey::Ensure-Package
(
Name: saltminion,
Version: 2019.2.0,
Source: STEP 3 URL
);
Requires Otter Chocolatey Extension. See docs at https://inedo.com/den/otter/chocolatey.
cChocoPackageInstaller saltminion
{
Name = 'saltminion'
Ensure = 'Present'
Version = '2019.2.0'
Source = 'STEP 3 URL'
}
Requires cChoco DSC Resource. See docs at https://github.com/chocolatey/cChoco.
package { 'saltminion':
provider => 'chocolatey',
ensure => '2019.2.0',
source => 'STEP 3 URL',
}
Requires Puppet Chocolatey Provider module. See docs at https://forge.puppet.com/puppetlabs/chocolatey.
salt '*' chocolatey.install saltminion version="2019.2.0" source="STEP 3 URL"
See docs at https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/modules/all/salt.modules.chocolatey.html.
5. If applicable - Chocolatey configuration/installation
See infrastructure management matrix for Chocolatey configuration elements and examples.
This package was approved as a trusted package on 09 Sep 2019.
This package installs a salt minion on your system as a windows service. The Salt minion receives commands from the central Salt master and replies with the results of said commands. It can also be used in standalone mode to apply states to a machine without a master by using C:\salt\salt-call.bat --local state.sls [yoursls]
or similar commands with --local
.
Note that this package supports two arguments: /master=yoursaltmaster and /minion=yourminionname (note the installer itself uses /minion-name, but parsing dictionary keys with the -
is painful).
These arguments can be passed to the package via the --params '/master=yoursaltmaster'. The custom salt master is recommended in most environments, the minion name is optional will default to the hostname if not supplied.
# Need to keep a copy of the C:\salt\conf\minion and minion.d files in case the user is upgrading and wants to persist their existing settings.
$chocoBackup = '$env:ProgramData\chocolatey\lib-bkp\saltconfig'
$saltConfig = 'C:\salt\conf\'
# Items to keep around, 'pki' is "identity", 'minion[_id]' is settings and ID, 'minion.d' is additional settings
#if (Test-Path $saltConfig ) { copy-item $saltConfig $chocoBackup -recurse }
# In chocolateyInstall.ps1 will need to look for a previous backup and restore files either before install or after upgrade (only IF the master & minion ID match?)
# if (Test-Path $chocoBackup) { copy-item $chocoBackup $saltConfig -recurse }
# Maybe do the backup via another package that simply assumes C:\salt\conf and performs the backup? but reverse-depends don't work here
# In chocolateyUninstall.ps1 will need to remove $chocoBackup if it exists but only if doing a real uninstall and not an upgrade
$packageName = 'saltminion'
# Update these URLs and checksums when deploying a new version
$url64 = 'https://repo.saltstack.com/windows/Salt-Minion-2019.2.0-Py3-AMD64-Setup.exe'
$checksum64 = '9C46F59C223610009A76F5150883C3D3'
$url = 'https://repo.saltstack.com/windows/Salt-Minion-2019.2.0-Py3-x86-Setup.exe'
$checksum = 'F4C874155C9A565356D201DB4C2D4998'
# Get arguments to download the file from the URLs and checksums above
$packageArgs = @{
packageName = $packageName
fileType = 'exe'
url = $url
url64bit = $url64
silentArgs = "/S"
softwareName = 'Salt*'
checksum = $checksum
checksumType = 'md5'
checksum64 = $checksum64
checksumType64= 'md5'
}
$arguments = @{};
# /master=myMaster /minion=myMinion
$packageParameters = $env:chocolateyPackageParameters;
$packageParameters
# Default the values
$saltMaster = ''
$minionName = ''
# Now parse the packageParameters using good old regular expression
if ($packageParameters) {
$match_pattern = "\/(?<option>([a-zA-Z]+))=(?<value>([`"'])?([a-zA-Z0-9- _\\:\.]+)([`"'])?)|\/(?<option>([a-zA-Z]+))"
#"
$option_name = 'option'
$value_name = 'value'
if ($packageParameters -match $match_pattern ){
$results = $packageParameters | Select-String $match_pattern -AllMatches
$results.matches | % {
$arguments.Add(
$_.Groups[$option_name].Value.Trim(),
$_.Groups[$value_name].Value.Trim())
}
}
else
{
throw "Package Parameters were found but were invalid (REGEX Failure)"
}
if ($arguments.ContainsKey("master")) {
Write-Host "You specified a custom master address"
$saltMaster = $arguments['master']
$packageArgs['silentArgs'] += " /master=$saltMaster"
}
if ($arguments.ContainsKey("minion")) {
Write-Host "You specified a custom minion ID"
$minionName = $arguments['minion']
$packageArgs['silentArgs'] += " /minion-name=$minionName"
}
} else {
Write-Debug "No Package Parameters Passed in, using defaults of /master=salt and /minion=$env:COMPUTERNAME"
}
install-ChocolateyPackage @packageArgs
# By default, salt installs in c:\salt This package will attempt to call the uninstall executable from there.
C:\salt\uninst.exe /S
- saltminion.2019.2.0.nupkg (ec4eefc1434c) - ## / 58 - Log in or click on link to see number of positives
- Salt-Minion-2019.2.0-Py3-AMD64-Setup.exe (1f24bd4853af) - ## / 67 - Log in or click on link to see number of positives
- Salt-Minion-2019.2.0-Py3-x86-Setup.exe (d67e95d5982a) - ## / 68 - Log in or click on link to see number of positives
In cases where actual malware is found, the packages are subject to removal. Software sometimes has false positives. Moderators do not necessarily validate the safety of the underlying software, only that a package retrieves software from the official distribution point and/or validate embedded software against official distribution point (where distribution rights allow redistribution).
Chocolatey Pro provides runtime protection from possible malware.
Version | Downloads | Last Updated | Status |
---|---|---|---|
Salt Minion 2019.2.2 | 1197 | Sunday, October 27, 2019 | Approved |
Salt Minion 2019.2.1 | 1095 | Monday, September 30, 2019 | Approved |
Salt Minion 2019.2.0 | 7041 | Tuesday, February 26, 2019 | Approved |
Salt Minion 2018.3.4 | 645 | Tuesday, February 26, 2019 | Approved |
Salt Minion 2018.3.3.3 | 1171 | Thursday, January 17, 2019 | Approved |
Salt Minion 2018.3.3.2 | 271 | Wednesday, January 16, 2019 | Approved |
Salt Minion 2018.3.3.1 | 1842 | Monday, November 12, 2018 | Approved |
Salt Minion 2018.3.3 | 1959 | Wednesday, October 24, 2018 | Approved |
Salt Minion 2018.3.2 | 4348 | Wednesday, June 27, 2018 | Approved |
Salt Minion 2018.3.1 | 578 | Wednesday, June 13, 2018 | Approved |
Salt Minion 2018.3.0.1 | 1205 | Monday, May 21, 2018 | Approved |
Salt Minion 2018.3.0 | 2762 | Tuesday, April 3, 2018 | Approved |
Salt Minion 2017.7.8.1 | 113 | Thursday, December 20, 2018 | Approved |
Salt Minion 2017.7.8 | 91 | Wednesday, October 24, 2018 | Approved |
Salt Minion 2017.7.7 | 139 | Friday, September 7, 2018 | Approved |
Salt Minion 2017.7.5 | 1775 | Tuesday, April 3, 2018 | Approved |
Salt Minion 2017.7.4.1 | 1531 | Monday, March 12, 2018 | Approved |
Salt Minion 2017.7.4 | 538 | Monday, February 26, 2018 | Approved |
Salt Minion 2017.7.3 | 468 | Monday, February 5, 2018 | Approved |
Salt Minion 2017.7.2 | 1941 | Monday, October 9, 2017 | Approved |
Salt Minion 2017.7.1 | 871 | Tuesday, August 15, 2017 | Approved |
Salt Minion 2017.7.0 | 463 | Wednesday, July 26, 2017 | Approved |
Salt Minion 2016.11.6 | 3219 | Wednesday, June 28, 2017 | Approved |
Salt Minion 2016.11.5 | 799 | Friday, May 19, 2017 | Approved |
Salt Minion 2016.11.4 | 666 | Thursday, April 27, 2017 | Approved |
Salt Minion 2016.11.3 | 638 | Wednesday, March 1, 2017 | Approved |
Salt Minion 2016.11.2 | 504 | Tuesday, January 31, 2017 | Approved |
Salt Minion 2016.11.1 | 229 | Sunday, January 29, 2017 | Approved |
Salt Minion 2016.3.4 | 441 | Wednesday, December 21, 2016 | Approved |
Salt Minion 2016.3.3 | 1342 | Wednesday, August 31, 2016 | Approved |
Salt Minion 2016.3.2 | 368 | Thursday, August 4, 2016 | Approved |
Salt Minion 2016.3.1 | 362 | Thursday, July 28, 2016 | Approved |
Salt Minion 2015.8.5 | 834 | Monday, February 29, 2016 | Approved |
Salt Minion 2015.8.4 | 269 | Monday, February 29, 2016 | Approved |
Salt Minion 2015.8.3 | 566 | Saturday, December 5, 2015 | Approved |
Salt Minion 2015.5.8 | 180 | Saturday, December 5, 2015 | Approved |
Salt Minion 2014.7.4 | 233 | Saturday, December 5, 2015 | Approved |
- Updated to latest version
* Use Python 3
* Rebuilt 2019-01-17 with updated checksums using the Python 3 installers
-
- vcredist2008 (≥ 9.0)
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