Day: April 17, 2020

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How to Install saltstack minion on a Raspberry PI

saltstack is an awesome configuration management tool to ensure that you have complete control over the configuration of all of the computers in your environment. It is an enterprise-class tool, run by very large companies with very many computers. Big companies like eBay, LEGO, and Liberty Mutual! I have a bunch of raspberry pi computers, […]

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How to Fix Minions that Can’t Find a New Replacement salt-master Server

Emergency Scenario: Need to reestablish security between salt master and minions. Too much tickering around and I’ve broken my salt-master server. No problem, right? Just spin up a raspberry, install the SaltStack master software on it and let the minions find the new server. All you have to do is make sure that the new […]

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