Building and Running Salt

build-run-salt.sh

vagrant@lucid32$ cd ~
vagrant@lucid32$ mkdir virtualenvs
vagrant@lucid32$ cd virtualenvs
vagrant@lucid32$ virtualenv salt-dev
vagrant@lucid32$ . salt-dev/bin/activate
(salt-dev)vagrant@lucid32$ cd ~

(salt-dev)vagrant@lucid32$ sudo aptitude install swig g++ python-dev uuid-dev make
(salt-dev)vagrant@lucid32$ wget http://download.zeromq.org/zeromq-2.2.0.tar.gz
(salt-dev)vagrant@lucid32$ tar xzvf zeromq-2.2.0.tar.gz
(salt-dev)vagrant@lucid32$ cd zeromq-2.2.0/
(salt-dev)vagrant@lucid32$ ./configure
(salt-dev)vagrant@lucid32$ make
(salt-dev)vagrant@lucid32$ sudo make install
(salt-dev)vagrant@lucid32$ cd ..

(salt-dev)vagrant@lucid32$ git clone https://github.com/saltstack/salt.git salt-dev
(salt-dev)vagrant@lucid32$ pip install -e salt-dev/
(salt-dev)vagrant@lucid32$ cp salt-dev/conf/master.template master
(salt-dev)vagrant@lucid32$ cp salt-dev/conf/minion.template minion

# Set master user and root_dir.
(salt-dev)vagrant@lucid32$ cat master | grep user:
user: vagrant
(salt-dev)vagrant@lucid32$ cat master | grep root_dir: 
root_dir: /home/vagrant/virtualenvs/salt-dev

# Set minion master, user, root_dir and id.
(salt-dev)vagrant@lucid32$ cat minion | grep master:
master: localhost 
(salt-dev)vagrant@lucid32$ cat minion | grep user:  
user: vagrant
(salt-dev)vagrant@lucid32$ cat minion | grep root_dir:
root_dir: /home/vagrant/virtualenvs/salt-dev 
(salt-dev)vagrant@lucid32$ cat minion | grep id:      
id: salt-dev

# Note that salt-master and salt-minion has a -d option to run the process as a daemon but when I did that the minion key didn't show up in salt-key.

# Start master process.
(salt-dev)vagrant@lucid32$ salt-master -c master

# Start minion process. Need to open another vagrant ssh session and activate salt-dev virtualenv.
(salt-dev)vagrant@lucid32$ salt-minion -c minion

# Accept key and test.  Need to open another vagrant ssh session and activate salt-dev virtualenv.
(salt-dev)vagrant@lucid32$ salt-key -c master
Unaccepted Keys:
salt-dev
Accepted Keys:
Rejected:
(salt-dev)vagrant@lucid32$ salt-key -c master -a salt-dev
Key for salt-dev accepted.
(salt-dev)vagrant@lucid32$ salt -c master salt-dev test.ping
salt-dev: True