Salt SSH for agentless login on AWS server by Raj Gupta

Update the server

yum update

install epel

sudo amazon-linux-extras install epel

yum install epel-release -y

now install Salt-SSH

yum install salt-ssh salt-master -y

Now update the file with client details

ls -l /etc/salt/roster

vim /etc/salt/roster

appserver1:

  host: 192.168.1.210

  user: root

  passwd: root123           ------set the root password of client by using command passwd

  port: 22

appserver2:

  host: 192.168.1.230

  user: root

dbserver1:

  host: 192.168.1.220

  user: root

  sudo: True

  tty: True

 check the updated file

cat -vet /etc/salt/roster

now enable and start the salt master

systemctl enable salt-master

systemctl start salt-master

systemctl status salt-master

salt-ssh --version-report

vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config     ----- in this file change the below line for password logging in both client and master

PasswordAuthentication yes      ------here change no to yes

now start the service

systemctl restart sshd

salt-ssh -i '*' test.ping                   ------to check connectivity

salt-ssh '*' cmd.run 'df -h;date'         -------to run shell command

salt-ssh '*' cmd.run 'df -h;date' -l debug         ------to debug how the command are running