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/py3-progressbar
net/py3-msgpack
net/py3-zmq
security/py3-Cryptodome
security/py3-M2Crypto
sysutils/py3-distro
textproc/py3-MarkupSafe
textproc/py3-yaml
www/py3-jinja2
www/py3-requests

Installation

To install Salt from the OpenBSD package 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.