SaltStack RPM archive

SaltStack is a great infrastructure management tool. I don’t always want to use the latest version, so it’s useful to know where to download older releases. The problem is that using EPEL to install it on CentOS/RHEL systems only offers the latest version.

Fortunately, it’s possible to download old RPM packages from the following URLs — thanks to “forrest” on the SaltStack IRC channel for digging up this information.

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=13129

https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/salt/

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Here’s how I’ve upgrade my salt infrastructure:

– Make a backup of the salt-master
– Upgrade the salt master
– Install the ‘at’ package on all minions (my minions are linux)
– salt ‘*’ pkg.install at
– Enable and start the at service
– salt ‘*’ service.enable atd
– salt ‘*’ service.start atd
– Run a script
– Copy and paste the code below into your salt directory, typically /srv/salt/upgrade_minion.sh
– salt ‘*’ cmd.script salt://upgrade_minion.sh timeout=15

Here’s the script. Note: It would be safer (and faster) to download from a trusted internal HTTP server.

#!/bin/bash
VERSION=$(salt-minion –version | awk ‘{print $2}’)

cd /root
if [ X$VERSION != ‘2014.1.7’ ] ; then
echo “upgrading `date`”
set -e
curl https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/salt/2014.1.7/3.el6/noarch/salt-2014.1.7-3.el6.noarch.rpm -o salt-2014.1.7-3.el6.noarch.rpm
curl https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/salt/2014.1.7/3.el6/noarch/salt-minion-2014.1.7-3.el6.noarch.rpm -o salt-minion-2014.1.7-3.el6.noarch.rpm
sha1sum salt-2014.1.7-3.el6.noarch.rpm
sha1sum salt-minion-2014.1.7-3.el6.noarch.rpm
echo ‘/etc/init.d/salt-minion stop ; /bin/rm -rf /var/cache/salt ; truncate -s 0 /var/log/salt/minion ; rpm -Uhv /root/salt*2014.1.7-3*rpm ; /etc/init.d/salt-minion start’ | at now
else
echo “Already upgraded to $VERSION”
fi