This is a guide if you want to connect a minion from one master
to a different master.
Hope it helps.
Scenario:
You have a minion ex. minion1 and it is currently connected to master1. Now for some reason you
want to connect to a different master ex master2. I had this requirement
when I had to create a clone of a live ec2 instances minions which is already
connected to live-master and I had to connect it to a master which we use for
development i.e. dev-master.
NOTE: I am assuming the OS to be Ubuntu
The following are the steps.
- SSH into minion and Shutdown salt-minion on the minion instance using sudo service salt-minion stop (Optional)
- Restart master2 in open mode(This is temporary, This will make it easier) by doing the following
- In master2 (/etc/salt/master) configuration set open_mode: True
- Restart salt-master using sudo service salt-master restart
- Change ID(Optional), master IP/HOST and master_finder of minion by doing the following
- ssh to minion
- do sudo vim /etc/salt/minion
- search for id: and change it if needed.
- search for master: IP/HOST, change the IP or HOST for the master2
- search for master_finger: and delete the property. This is newly added so It may not be there in configuration.
- Remove key for old master(master1) server rm /etc/salt/pki/minion/minion_master.pub
- Restart minion sudo service salt-minion restart
- Change open_mode to False or remove the property(by default is False) and restart master2.
This should allow the minion to connect to the master2. Now there are things
which you would need to change depending on the requirement. Like I was
creating a different environment by cloning liveand we have a grain named circle set for the
environments like dev, staging or live. So had to change the
grain to livetest.
salt '*.livetest.example.com' grains.setval circle livetest
Any suggestions or questions are welcome.
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