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Set Up Masterless Salt

When writing or testing Salt formulas, it's often nice to have a test environment or ability to created throwaway servers for testing. We don't want a full Salt environment for this, so instead we'll create a masterless Salt minion for testing.

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Level
Clock icon Beginner
Duration
Clock icon 15m
Published
Clock icon May 21, 2021

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Table of Contents

  1. Challenge

    Install Salt

    Install Salt on the provided CentOS machine.

  2. Challenge

    Update the Configuration

    1. Configure Salt to run without a master.
    2. Ensure Salt uses the new configuration.

  3. Challenge

    Test for Salt

    Use salt-call to test that Salt is running locally.

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