Fedora Salt Master - New installation
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This is the installation page. You can see how short it is.
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/2015.8/topics/installation/fedora.html
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Here is the problem, I think...
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/2015.8/topics/troubleshooting/master.html
So if you go through their massive manual, they have a troubleshooting section. And they tell you to run Master in the foreground for troubleshooting. They are assuming that you will stop it in the background first, but they never mention it. It's not part of the installation, but it probably should have a note about stopping any background processes first as easily a lot of people won't realize you can have both.
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Oh, Dustin just showed me where there is a link to the "Configuring" page as an instruction on the installation page. That's BS. It's unneeded (generally) and telling you to start it again there is totally wrong given where you are coming from.
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And based on the "Configuring Salt" link, it goes to "post install tasks" and that is where the step comes from.
I'll admit I completely skipped firewalld, but once I did and had it sorted was I mostly there.
Their documentation is weird, as click "next" takes you to the next OS install process, so the "Configure salt" link is the logical step in the guide.
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And really, all I'm looking for is a convenient way setup my user workstations, and update them without the Apple overhead, including with brew commands.
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@DustinB3403 said in Fedora Salt Master - New installation:
And based on the "Configuring Salt" link, it goes to "post install tasks" and that is where the step comes from.
Right, which really is dumb as there shouldn't be any at all.
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@DustinB3403 said in Fedora Salt Master - New installation:
Their documentation is weird, as click "next" takes you to the next OS install process, so the "Configure salt" link is the logical step in the guide.
Yeah, they are using a format that doesn't make sense. It makes it feel like you are supposed to read it through when you are definitely not meant to do that.
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@DustinB3403 said in Fedora Salt Master - New installation:
And really, all I'm looking for is a convenient way setup my user workstations, and update them without the Apple overhead, including with brew commands.
This is my ML How Tos are better
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@scottalanmiller said in Fedora Salt Master - New installation:
@DustinB3403 said in Fedora Salt Master - New installation:
Their documentation is weird, as click "next" takes you to the next OS install process, so the "Configure salt" link is the logical step in the guide.
Yeah, they are using a format that doesn't make sense. It makes it feel like you are supposed to read it through when you are definitely not meant to do that.
Which is half the issue. Okay, step 4 drive your car off the cliff and a Pegasus will come to your rescue.
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@scottalanmiller said in Fedora Salt Master - New installation:
@DustinB3403 said in Fedora Salt Master - New installation:
And really, all I'm looking for is a convenient way setup my user workstations, and update them without the Apple overhead, including with brew commands.
This is my ML How Tos are better
I looked but didn't find one that was current.
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@DustinB3403 said in Fedora Salt Master - New installation:
@scottalanmiller said in Fedora Salt Master - New installation:
@DustinB3403 said in Fedora Salt Master - New installation:
And really, all I'm looking for is a convenient way setup my user workstations, and update them without the Apple overhead, including with brew commands.
This is my ML How Tos are better
I looked but didn't find one that was current.
Yeah, not sure that there is one. On Fedora 28 it was broken. On Fedora 30 I think it is just "dnf install salt-master -y" and you are done. So nothing to write up.
I think we are running Salt on Ubuntu now because of the breakage issues on Fedora.
