Salt Minion

All minions by default need to be able to resolve the salt hostname to the salt-master. This can be changed in the minion configuration files.

Minions should be run as root. Minions require root to properly install software, update apt and execute commands.

Note

If you plan on installing docker, you need to use source_interface_name or source_address when configuring the minion, otherwise salt could pick up the Docker interface and use that. This will cause the minion to be unable to respond to the master.

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