Heist Master

You can use the salt.master Heist plugin to deploy and manage a Salt master artifact.

heist salt.master -R roster.cfg

This will automatically download and deploy a Salt master to the defined targets. This Heist manager will also handle the Salt master upgrades, and managing the service.

If you want to define Salt master config options to add to the master config file, you would define them in your roster file like so:

system_name:
  host: 192.168.1.2
  username: root
  password: "rootpassword"
  master_opts:
    log_level_logfile: debug