New Commands are:

The salt-key command is used to manage all of the keys on the master. To list the keys that are on the master:

salt-key -L

The keys that have been rejected, accepted, and pending acceptance are listed. The easiest way to accept the minion key is to accept all pending keys:

salt-key -A

@tim_g said in Installing Salt Master:

@scottalanmiller said in Installing Salt Master:

Now we can easily get Salt Master installed.
cd /tmp; curl -L https://bootstrap.saltstack.com -o install_salt.sh
sh install_salt.sh -M

What's the difference between installing it like you mention above, or via the repository apt-get install salt-master for example?

https://repo.saltstack.com/#ubuntu

Ubuntu because that's all I have available right now for testing, in case anyone has the urge to point that out. It's also the same for Fedora: https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/installation/fedora.html
But that's besides the point.

In theory it handles grabbing the repos under the hood, but in a more universal way. And handles some distros that dont' necessarily have repos.