Building SaltStack

Building SaltStack

Below versions of SaltStack(Salt) are available in respective distributions at the time of creation of these build instructions:

• SLES 15 has 2018.3.0
• Ubuntu 16.04 has 2015.8.8
• Ubuntu 18.04 has 2017.7.4

The instructions provided below specify the steps to build SaltStack v2019.2.0 on Linux on IBM Z for the following distributions:

• RHEL (6.10, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6)
• SLES (12 SP4, 15)
• Ubuntu (16.04, 18.04)

General notes:

• When following the steps below please use a standard permission user unless otherwise specified.
• A directory /<source_root>/ will be referred to in these instructions, this is a temporary writable directory anywhere you'd like to place it.

Step 1: Install the dependencies

export SOURCE_ROOT=/<source_root>/

• RHEL (6.10, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6)

  sudo yum install -y cyrus-sasl-devel gcc gcc-c++ git libffi-devel libtool libxml2-devel libxslt-devel make man openssl-devel swig tar wget
  

  • Install Python 3.x -- Instructions for building Python 3.x can be found here.

  • Install M2Crypto

    sudo -H pip3 install M2Crypto
    

  • Install ZeroMQ

    cd $SOURCE_ROOT
    wget https://github.com/zeromq/zeromq4-1/releases/download/v4.1.6/zeromq-4.1.6.tar.gz
    tar -xzvf zeromq-4.1.6.tar.gz
    cd zeromq-4.1.6
    ./configure
    make
    sudo make install
    sudo ldconfig
    

• SLES (12 SP4, 15)

  sudo zypper install -y curl cyrus-sasl-devel gawk gcc gcc-c++ git libffi-devel libopenssl-devel libxml2-devel libxslt-devel make man python3-devel tar wget zeromq-devel

  • Install pip

    curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py
    sudo python3 get-pip.py
    

• Ubuntu (16.04, 18.04)

  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get install -y g++ gcc git libffi-dev libsasl2-dev libssl-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libzmq3-dev make man python3-dev python3-pip tar wget

Step 2: Clone the repository and install SaltStack

cd $SOURCE_ROOT
git clone git://github.com/saltstack/salt
cd salt
git checkout v2019.2.0
sudo -H pip3 install pyzmq 'PyYAML<5.1' pycrypto msgpack-python jinja2 psutil futures tornado
sudo -H pip3 install -e .

Step 3: Configure SaltStack to run self-contained version

cd $SOURCE_ROOT
mkdir -p $SOURCE_ROOT/etc/salt/pki/{master,minion}
cp ./salt/conf/master ./salt/conf/minion $SOURCE_ROOT/etc/salt/

• Edit config file $SOURCE_ROOT/etc/salt/master as shown below

  -	    #user: root
  +	    user: <username>
  -	    #root_dir: /
  +	    root_dir: /<source_root>/

  Note: Change the publish_port and ret_port values if required

• Edit config file $SOURCE_ROOT/etc/salt/minion as shown below

  -	    #master: salt
  +	    master: localhost
  -	    #user: root
  +	    user: <username>
  -	    #root_dir: /
  +	    root_dir: /<source_root>/

  Note: If the ret_port value in the master config file is changed, set the same value to master_port value in the minion config file

• Start the master and minion, accept the minion's key, and verify your local Salt installation is working:

  cd $SOURCE_ROOT
  salt-master -c ./etc/salt -d
  salt-minion -c ./etc/salt -d
  salt-key -c ./etc/salt -L
  salt-key -c ./etc/salt -A
  salt -c ./etc/salt '*' test.version

Step 4: Test SaltStack (Optional)

cd $SOURCE_ROOT/salt
wget -O requirements/tests.txt https://raw.githubusercontent.com/saltstack/salt/hotfix/pytest/requirements/tests.txt
wget -O requirements/pytest.txt https://raw.githubusercontent.com/saltstack/salt/hotfix/pytest/requirements/pytest.txt
sudo -H pip3 install jsonschema==2.6.0
sudo -H pip3 install -r requirements/tests.txt
sudo python3 tests/runtests.py

Note: User can ignore intermittent test-case failures as it does not affect the functionality. Test failures seen in the following modules can be ignored as those are not related to IBM Z Systems: Module Tests, Shell Tests and Unit Tests.

References:

https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/installation/index.html
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/development/hacking.html
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/development/tests/index.html