Changing name of salt minion CentsOS 7

Posted On May 22, 2018

We run into situation when we needed to change name of already added salt minion. Here is few simple steps that will get this done.

On Salt minion

Stop the Salt-Minion Service

systemctl stop salt-minion

Delete the current keys

cd /etc/salt/pki/minion/
rm -rf minion.pub minion.pem

Change the minions id in /etc/salt/minion_id

vim /etc/salt/minion_id
myminion.prolinuxhub.com

On Salt Master

Delete the key for our salt minion

salt-key -d myminion.prolinuxhub.com

Back to Salt minion
Restart Salt minion service

systemctl stop salt-minion

View all Unaccepted keys and make sure our minion is on the list

salt-key -L

On the Salt Master Accept the key

salt-key --accept=myminion.prolinuxhub.com

Vie accepted keys and make sure our minion is on the list

salt-key -L