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Install overview
Quickstart
Before you start
Manual install directions by operating system
Bootstrap installation

Install overview
Quickstart
Before you start
Manual install directions by operating system
Bootstrap installation
Other installation types
Configure the Salt master and minions
Start the master and minion services
Accept the minion keys
Verify a Salt install
Install dependencies
Uninstall Salt
Revert to a previous version of Salt
Upgrade Salt
Upgrade to onedir
Salt supported operating systems
Salt version support lifecycle
Support for Python versions
Access old packages of Salt
Announcements
Downloads
Open a Salt issue to report bugs
Open an Install Guide docs issue
Salt docs contributing guide
Salt Install Guide source

Salt Install Guide

Install overview
- Standard installation overview
- Alternative installations and configurations
Quickstart

Install Salt

Before you start
Manual install directions by operating system
- Linux (DEB)
- Linux (RPM)
- macOS
- Windows
Bootstrap installation
- About the Salt bootstrap installation
- Learn more
Other installation types

Post-installation

Configure the Salt master and minions
Start the master and minion services
- Starting Salt services
- Next steps
Accept the minion keys
Verify a Salt install
- Send a test ping
- Next steps
Install dependencies
- Installing dependencies in onedir versions of Salt
- List of dependencies by operating system
Uninstall Salt
Revert to a previous version of Salt
- Revert Salt on Debian/Ubuntu operating systems
- Revert Salt on RedHat operating systems

Upgrade Salt

Upgrade Salt
Upgrade to onedir
- What is onedir?
- How to upgrade to onedir

Support

Salt supported operating systems
Salt version support lifecycle
Support for Python versions
Access old packages of Salt
Announcements
- Security announcements
- Release announcements
Downloads
- Linux (RPM)
- Linux (DEB)
- macOS
- Windows

Contribute

Open a Salt issue to report bugs
Open an Install Guide docs issue
Salt docs contributing guide
Salt Install Guide source

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