Has salt-minion been removed from 1.3?

[maznu]

What happened to set service salt-minion …?

vyos@vy.marek.isal.ski# set service
Possible completions:
 > broadcast-relay
                UDP broadcast relay service
 > conntrack-sync
                Connection tracking synchronization (conntrack-sync) service
 > dhcp-relay   Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) relay agent
 > dhcp-server  Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) for DHCP server
 > dhcpv6-relay DHCPv6 Relay Agent parameters
 > dhcpv6-server
                DHCP for IPv6 (DHCPv6) server
 > dns          Domain Name System related services
 > https        HTTPS configuration
 > ipoe-server  Internet Protocol over Ethernet (IPoE) Server
 > lldp         LLDP settings
 > mdns         Multicast DNS (mDNS) parameters
 > pppoe-server Point to Point over Ethernet (PPPoE) Server
 > snmp         Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
 > ssh          Secure SHell (SSH) protocol
 > sstp-server  Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol (SSTP) Server
 > tftp-server  Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) server
 > webproxy     Webproxy service settings

Running:

Version:          VyOS 1.3-rolling-202002220217
Built by:         autobuild@vyos.net
Built on:         Sat 22 Feb 2020 02:17 UTC
Build UUID:       a24f7658-077c-4daf-8dba-edf28f9d77ef
Build Commit ID:  9ead55dde1a1b4

Is salt discontinued in VyOS 1.3 now?

[syncer]

Not intentionally, let me check how we can get it back.
on side note, what minion version we should go with in 1.3?

[maznu]

Given 1.3 is Debian 10.3 under the hood, I would recommend 2019.2 using the PY3 repository:

https://repo.saltstack.com/2019.2.html#debian

Archive key at: https://repo.saltstack.com/py3/debian/10/amd64/2019.2/SALTSTACK-GPG-KEY.pub

And apt-able packages at:

deb http://repo.saltstack.com/py3/debian/10/amd64/2019.2 buster main

There are two caveats:

1. the PY3 repository uses Python 3, which might show some warnings in its output related to deprecated features of the language; but at least this is a stable and supported version of Python
2. there is a current version of SaltStack v3000, but we’ve had some slight interop problems running that as a salt-minion when talking to a salt-master of 2019 (or earlier)… I’m still investigating why!

[c-po]

Back in the early Debian Buster days salt was removed as somehow it was not that easy to integrate but that should not block the migration to Debian Buster.

I will readd that package to vyos-world ⚓ T2063 vyos-salt-minion package is missing from vyos-world

[c-po]

Any rolling release after vyos-1.3-rolling-202002220217-amd64.iso should have it back in. Please test and report bugs via Phabricator.

[maznu]

That’s tomorrow’s fun dev project chosen, then!

[maznu]

Thumbs-up from me, that is working a treat.

And so I have released hphr — which is “VyOS + SaltStack + Netbox = Routing Security”.

Many thanks!