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Salt Master

This package is used to send commands and configurations to the Salt minion that is running on managed systems.

Caveats

Salt master is running as nonroot: https://docs.saltproject.io/en/latest/ref/configuration/nonroot.html

Salt Minion

This package runs the Salt minion which receives commands and configuration from a Salt master.

Configuration Files

Salt Master: /var/packages/salt-master/etc/salt

Salt Minion: /var/packages/salt-minion/etc/salt

Running salt commands

salt -c /var/packages/salt-master/etc/salt

Example

ToDo @arnebjarne

config file changes for a minimal example if any

Any commands needed to make the example work on the localhost (DSM)