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Arista EOS Salt minion installation guide

The Salt minion for Arista EOS is distributed as a SWIX extension and can be installed directly on the switch. The EOS network operating system is based on old Fedora distributions and the installation of the salt-minion requires backports. This SWIX extension contains the necessary backports, together with the Salt basecode.

Note

This SWIX extension has been tested on Arista DCS-7280SE-68-R, running EOS 4.17.5M and vEOS 4.18.3F.

Important Notes

This package is in beta, make sure to test it carefully before running it in production.

If confirmed working correctly, please report and add a note on this page with the platform model and EOS version.

If you want to uninstall this package, please refer to the uninstalling section.

Installation from the Official SaltStack Repository

Download the swix package and save it to flash.

veos#copy https://salt-eos.netops.life/salt-eos-latest.swix flash:
veos#copy https://salt-eos.netops.life/startup.sh flash:

Install the Extension

Copy the Salt package to extension

veos#copy flash:salt-eos-latest.swix extension:

Install the SWIX

veos#extension salt-eos-latest.swix force

Verify the installation

veos#show extensions | include salt-eos
     salt-eos-2017-07-19.swix      1.0.11/1.fc25        A, F                27

Change the Salt master IP address or FQDN, by edit the variable (SALT_MASTER)

veos#bash vi /mnt/flash/startup.sh

Make sure you enable the eAPI with unix-socket

veos(config)#management api http-commands
         protocol unix-socket
         no shutdown

Post-installation tasks

Generate Keys and host record and start Salt minion

veos#bash
#sudo /mnt/flash/startup.sh

salt-minion should be running

Copy the installed extensions to boot-extensions

veos#copy installed-extensions boot-extensions

Apply event-handler to let EOS start salt-minion during boot-up

veos(config)#event-handler boot-up-script
   trigger on-boot
   action bash sudo /mnt/flash/startup.sh

For more specific installation details of the salt-minion, please refer to Configuring Salt<configuring-salt>.

Uninstalling

If you decide to uninstall this package, the following steps are recommended for safety:

Remove the extension from boot-extensions

veos#bash rm /mnt/flash/boot-extensions

Remove the extension from extensions folder

veos#bash rm /mnt/flash/.extensions/salt-eos-latest.swix

Remove boot-up script

veos(config)#no event-handler boot-up-script

Additional Information

This SWIX extension contains the following RPM packages:

libsodium-1.0.11-1.fc25.i686.rpm
libstdc++-6.2.1-2.fc25.i686.rpm
openpgm-5.2.122-6.fc24.i686.rpm
python-Jinja2-2.8-0.i686.rpm
python-PyYAML-3.12-0.i686.rpm
python-babel-0.9.6-5.fc18.noarch.rpm
python-backports-1.0-3.fc18.i686.rpm
python-backports-ssl_match_hostname-3.4.0.2-1.fc18.noarch.rpm
python-backports_abc-0.5-0.i686.rpm
python-certifi-2016.9.26-0.i686.rpm
python-chardet-2.0.1-5.fc18.noarch.rpm
python-crypto-1.4.1-1.noarch.rpm
python-crypto-2.6.1-1.fc18.i686.rpm
python-futures-3.1.1-1.noarch.rpm
python-jtextfsm-0.3.1-0.noarch.rpm
python-kitchen-1.1.1-2.fc18.noarch.rpm
python-markupsafe-0.18-1.fc18.i686.rpm
python-msgpack-python-0.4.8-0.i686.rpm
python-napalm-base-0.24.3-1.noarch.rpm
python-napalm-eos-0.6.0-1.noarch.rpm
python-netaddr-0.7.18-0.noarch.rpm
python-pyeapi-0.7.0-0.noarch.rpm
python-salt-2017.7.0_1414_g2fb986f-1.noarch.rpm
python-singledispatch-3.4.0.3-0.i686.rpm
python-six-1.10.0-0.i686.rpm
python-tornado-4.4.2-0.i686.rpm
python-urllib3-1.5-7.fc18.noarch.rpm
python2-zmq-15.3.0-2.fc25.i686.rpm
zeromq-4.1.4-5.fc25.i686.rpm

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