macOS

Installation from the Official SaltStack Repository

Latest stable build from the selected branch: |osxdownload|

The output of md5 <salt pkg> should match the contents of the corresponding md5 file.

Earlier builds from supported branches

Archived builds from unsupported branches

Installation from Homebrew

brew install saltstack

It should be noted that Homebrew explicitly discourages the use of sudo:

Homebrew is designed to work without using sudo. You can decide to use it but we strongly recommend not to do so. If you have used sudo and run into a bug then it is likely to be the cause. Please don’t file a bug report unless you can reproduce it after reinstalling Homebrew from scratch without using sudo

Installation from MacPorts

sudo port install salt

Installation from Pip

When only using the macOS system's pip, install this way:

sudo pip install salt

Salt-Master Customizations

Note

Salt master on macOS is not tested or supported by SaltStack. See SaltStack Platform Support for more information.

To run salt-master on macOS, sudo add this configuration option to the /etc/salt/master file:

max_open_files: 8192

On versions previous to macOS 10.10 (Yosemite), increase the root user maxfiles limit:

sudo launchctl limit maxfiles 4096 8192

Note

On macOS 10.10 (Yosemite) and higher, maxfiles should not be adjusted. The default limits are sufficient in all but the most extreme scenarios. Overriding these values with the setting below will cause system instability!

Now the salt-master should run without errors:

sudo salt-master --log-level=all

Post-installation tasks

Now go to the Configuring Salt<configuring-salt> page.

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