In an earlier post I used Salty Vagrant to show how to deploy Django with Salt Stack. Salty Vagrant utilizes a masterless configuration and it was recommended that I show how to set up a master/minion.

So I made this If you've read Salt's docs at all, this might look familiar to you, because it is essentially this

What's important to take away from this

Both Hosts sudo add-apt-repository ppa:saltstack/salt -y sudo apt-get update

Master sudo apt-get install salt-master salt-key -L salt-key -A service salt-master restart salt '*' test.ping

Minion sudo apt-get install salt-minion /etc/salt/minion << Set Salt Master service salt-minion restart And that's really it! Rather than being too redundant of what already exists in the docs, or doing all the work for you.