Vagrant to deploy Salt master - vagrant

Question

I'm trying to design a relatively complex system, using Vagrant and Salt-Stack to handle control and provisioning. The basic idea is to provision a machine, called master, which runs the Salt-Stack master that all my other machines will connect to.
In a previous attempt to do this, I just had Vagrant set up a Salt minion which was instructed to install the salt master and a dns server package. But I'd like to simplify key transports by using Vagrant's facilities. So what I'd like to do is have Vagrant install a Salt master and a minion, so that the minion can install the dns server, and so that Vagrant can move my keys around for me.
Here is what master's configuration looks like, in the Vagrantfile:
config.vm.define :master do |master|
master.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vbox|
vbox.cpus = 1
vbox.memory = 384
end
master.vm.network "private_network", ip: "10.47.94.2"
master.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 53, host: 53
master.vm.hostname = "master"
master.vm.provision :salt do |salt|
salt.verbose = true
salt.minion_config = "salt/master"
salt.run_highstate = true
salt.install_master = true
salt.master_config = "salt/master"
salt.master_key = "salt/keys/master.pem"
salt.master_pub = "salt/keys/master.pub"
salt.minion_key = "salt/keys/master.pem"
salt.minion_pub = "salt/keys/master.pub"
salt.seed_master = {master: "salt/keys/master.pub"}
salt.run_overstate = true
end
end
But I am getting the message:
Executing job with jid 20140403131604825601
-------------------------------------------
Execution is still running on master
Execution is still running on master
Execution is still running on master
Execution is still running on master
master:
Minion did not return
and when I look at master:/var/log/salt/minion, it's empty.
Is there an obvious error in my Vagrantfile configuration? Any hints?

Answer 1

I see that this has not been answered for a long time. Therefore I post my personal minimal Vagrant salt master file here. This problem occured to me once when I forgot to setup the master: localhost entry to the salt-minion configuration on the master (as default it looks for a host called salt).
Please note that the minion on the master has its own key.
This is running vagrant 1.7.2 and will install a salt master 2015.5.0
# Vagrantfile
# -*- mode: ruby -*-
# vi: set ft=ruby :
# Vagrantfile API/syntax version. Don't touch unless you know what you're doing!
VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"
Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
config.vm.box = "chef/centos-7.0"
# Deployment instance salt master
config.vm.define :master do |master|
master.vm.network :private_network, ip: "192.168.22.12"
master.vm.hostname = 'master'
master.vm.synced_folder "salt/roots/", "/srv/"
master.vm.provision :salt do |config|
config.install_master = true
config.minion_config = "salt/minion"
config.master_config = "salt/master"
config.minion_key = "salt/keys/minion.pem"
config.minion_pub = "salt/keys/minion.pub"
config.master_key = "salt/keys/master.pem"
config.master_pub = "salt/keys/master.pub"
config.seed_master =
{
master: "salt/keys/minion.pub"
}
config.run_highstate = true
end
end
end
Master's configuration file:
# salt/master
# empty, use only defaults
Minion's configuration file on master:
# salt/minion
master: localhost