How To Install salt-cloud on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install salt-cloud in Fedora 36. salt-cloud is Cloud provisioner for Salt, a parallel remote execution system

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install salt-cloud on Fedora 36.

What is `salt-cloud`

The salt-cloud tool provisions new cloud VMs, installs salt-minion on them, and adds them to the master’s collection of controllable minions. Supports Python 3.

We can use yum or dnf to install salt-cloud on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install salt-cloud.

Install salt-cloud on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install salt-cloud using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install salt-cloud

Install salt-cloud on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install salt-cloud using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install salt-cloud

How To Uninstall salt-cloud on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the salt-cloud package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove salt-cloud

salt-cloud Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/salt/cloud
/etc/salt/cloud.conf.d
/etc/salt/cloud.deploy.d
/etc/salt/cloud.maps.d
/etc/salt/cloud.profiles.d
/etc/salt/cloud.providers.d
/usr/bin/salt-cloud
/usr/share/man/man1/salt-cloud.1.gz

References

salt-cloud website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install salt-cloud on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).