Install the correct versions of salt-common and salt-minion¶

This section describes the workaround for salt.virt to properly inject minion.conf.

To manually install the required version of salt-common and salt-minion:

1. Log in to the physical node console

2. Change the version to 2017.7 in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/salt.list:

   deb [arch=amd64] http://repo.saltstack.com/apt/ubuntu/16.04/amd64/2017.7/dists/ xenial main
   

3. Sync the packages index files:

   apt-get update
   

4. Verify the versions:

   apt-cache policy salt-common
   apt-cache policy salt-minion
   

5. If the wrong versions are installed, remove them:

   apt-get remove salt-minion
   apt-get remove salt-common
   

6. Install the required versions of salt-common and salt-minion:

   apt-get install salt-common=2017.7
   apt-get install salt-minion=2017.7
   

7. Restart the salt-minion service to ensure connectivity with the Salt Master node:

   service salt-minion stop && service salt-minion start
   

8. Verify that the required version is installed:

   apt-cache policy salt-common
   apt-cache policy salt-minion
   

9. Repeat the procedure on each physical node.