As we attempt to test and make the Sodium Agent work on as many operating systems as possible, we realized that we need a way to track status to know what is working, what won't work, what is kind of working and so forth. So here we go.

Sorry for the two week hiatus. As many of you know, there have been some major employment changes in the Quixotic team and, of course, that will have an effect on SodiumSuite. What exactly that effect will be, for better or for worse, will take some time to determine. Our hopes are that once the dust has settled that SS will see an increase in development effort, but it will certainly be a few months before that can be realized. I'll be doing my best to keep everyone abreast of the latest news and status.

Solus Linux lacks a native package for SaltStack and so to use it as a Salt Minion you have to grab the packages from GitHub and create it yourself. Special thanks to @scottalanmiller who looked into this and Exoner4ted in the Solus community who did the research and figured out how to make this work.

Remember to change "saltmastip" to the actual IP of your salt master or handle that however makes sense for you.

cd /tmp; wget https://github.com/saltstack/salt/archive/2018.3.zip
unzip 2018.3.zip; cd /tmp/salt-2018.3/
python /root/salt-2018.3setup.py install
echo "saltmasterip salt" >> /etc/hosts
cp /root/salt-2018.3/pkg/salt-minion.service /usr/lib/systemd/system/
systemctl daemon-reload && systemctl enable salt-minion
eopkg install python-pyzmq pycrypto python-msgpack python-tornado python-jinja pyyaml
systemctl restart salt-minion

Unfortunately this package is not self updating.

We think that the issue was tied to performance. We saw the system being driven really hard, there is a lot going on behind the scenes. Our infrastructure upgrade this morning seems to have addressed the issue well.

Yeah, lots of cleaning up needed for the patch system. It is early and mostly works, but leaves a lot to be desired yet

We are working on a design for a patching dashboard that will give a lot more power specifically around patching.

With today's release of SodiumSuite, you will find under an individual asset a tab called "DNS Alternative Info" (this will be renamed to something more obvious shortly) where you can enter individual hosts file entries. Maybe not super exciting as far as features go, but it is the first of our system management utilities being rolled out and we hope shows more of what there is to come.

Right now the management is by individual machine. But we are just in the first stages.

Rolling out changes to the agents deployment page. We are moving from downloads to command line installers. This should make installing far easier for most people. We have a new, single script for UNIX installers, including most Linux, so that you no longer need to track down a different install for each type.

Today's work has been almost exclusively in OS detection and deployments. A lot of progress, though. We are able to support several more kinds of OSes today.

I know that it is very, very early in development and super rough right now, but have you looked at Sodium's SaaS helpdesk option? It is completely free and getting in early lets you be involved in helping to make sure that it has the kinds of features that you need for it to make sense for you.

That's great, thanks for testing that out for us. We also have Windows 7 confirmed as well. So that is 7 and Vista confirmed.

Oracle Linux has been added.

Today's work has been almost exclusively in OS detection and deployments. A lot of progress, though. We are able to support several more kinds of OSes today.

We have added PCLinuxOS - a Mandriva derivative that uses APT to manage RPM. Talk about complex.

We have added Sabayon Linux (a Gentoo derivative using the Entropy packaging system.)

We have added Solaris support!

Windows 8 & 8.1 added as working.

We have just added GeckoLinux to the support matrix!

@dafyre said in Installing SaltStack Salt-Minion to Solus Linux:

@quixoticjustin said in Installing SaltStack Salt-Minion to Solus Linux:

Solus Linux lacks a native package for SaltStack and so to use it as a Salt Minion you have to grab the packages from GitHub and create it yourself. Special thanks to @scottalanmiller who looked into this and Exoner4ted in the Solus community who did the research and figured out how to make this work.

Remember to change "saltmastip" to the actual IP of your salt master or handle that however makes sense for you.

cd /tmp; wget https://github.com/saltstack/salt/archive/2018.3.zip
unzip 2018.3.zip; cd /tmp/salt-2018.3/
python /root/salt-2018.3setup.py install
echo "saltmasterip salt" >> /etc/hosts
cp /root/salt-2018.3/pkg/salt-minion.service /usr/lib/systemd/system/
systemctl daemon-reload && systemctl enable salt-minion
eopkg install python-pyzmq pycrypto python-msgpack python-tornado python-jinja pyyaml
systemctl restart salt-minion

Unfortunately this package is not self updating.

Once you get the initial client installed, you should be able to to push out new salt-minion packages via Salt itself, right?

Yes, but not using a repo. So you'd need to build your own installer / updater inside of a Salt state. Totally possible, but not as simple as telling it to update.

Solus Linux lacks a native package for SaltStack and so to use it as a Salt Minion you have to grab the packages from GitHub and create it yourself. Special thanks to @scottalanmiller who looked into this and Exoner4ted in the Solus community who did the research and figured out how to make this work.

Remember to change "saltmastip" to the actual IP of your salt master or handle that however makes sense for you.

cd /tmp; wget https://github.com/saltstack/salt/archive/2018.3.zip
unzip 2018.3.zip; cd /tmp/salt-2018.3/
python /root/salt-2018.3setup.py install
echo "saltmasterip salt" >> /etc/hosts
cp /root/salt-2018.3/pkg/salt-minion.service /usr/lib/systemd/system/
systemctl daemon-reload && systemctl enable salt-minion
eopkg install python-pyzmq pycrypto python-msgpack python-tornado python-jinja pyyaml
systemctl restart salt-minion

Unfortunately this package is not self updating.

We have added Solus to our support matrix.