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