Installation

REMEMBER THAT FOR NOW YOU HAVE TO USE UBUNTU >= 14.04.

Use root unless you understand well how it works to handle user install

Download

  • Get MakinaStates by cloning it from github
    Usually we install it in /srv/makina-states

    git clone http://raw.github.com/makinacorpus/makina-states /srv/makina-states

    Common install command

  • Install with scratch nodetype, with refresh cron, logrotate.

    bin/boot-salt2.sh -C --install-logrotate --install-crons

boot-salt2.sh, the makina-states installer & manager

  • boot-salt2.sh will try to remember how you configured makina-states on each run. It stores configs in <clone_dir>/etc/makina-states

  • You can see the help this way:

    bin/boot-salt2.sh --help  # Short overview:
bin/boot-salt2.sh --long-help  # Detailed overview:

  • If you want to install with default options (scratch)

    bin/boot-salt2.sh -C

Optional post install steps

  • Install the logrotate to rotate salt logs

    bin/boot-salt2.sh -C --install-logrotate

  • Install the cron that refresh makina-states code every since and then (15min)

    bin/boot-salt2.sh -C --install-crons

  • Install the salt & ansible binaries to /usr/local/bin.
    THIS IS NOT RECOMMENDED ANYMORE, AND CAN EVEN BE HARMFULL

    bin/boot-salt2.sh -C --install-links
Last Updated: 2017-04-11