The following will download the single-binary and verify the download before attempting to extract from the. The following examples should work for Linux. If gpg isn’t present, it can be installed via gnupg2 (or, at times, gnupg) on most systems. It’s best practice, for security considerations and file integrity purposes, to confirm that the downloaded file is the file that was released by Salt Project.

Verify GPG key fingerprint and file integrity It is highly recommended that users instead install salt via the appropriate package for their target OS, as those packages include several configurations (configuring services, users, etc.) that would have to be manually configured when downloading single-binary forms of salt. Single-binaries of salt are primarily used by Heist, but they can be downloaded for simplified lab use. Here’s an example of running a silent installation from the command line: msiexec /i Salt-Minion-3004.2-1-P圓-AMD64.msi /quiet /norestart MASTER=yoursaltmaster MINION_ID=yourminionname Post-installationįor more information on next steps, reference Post-installation configuration The options MASTER and MINION_ID allow for configuring the master hostname and minion name, respectively. The installer can be run silently by providing the /quiet and /norestart option at the command line. Here’s an example of running a silent installation from the command line: Salt-Minion-3004.2-1-P圓-AMD64-Setup.exe /S /master=yoursaltmaster /minion-name=yourminionname MSI: Silent Installation Options The options /master and /minion-name allow for configuring the master hostname and minion name, respectively. The installer can be run silently by providing the /S option at the command line.

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