Install salt-proxy by entering the following commands in the terminal:
sudo apt update sudo apt install salt-proxy
Description:
Proxy client package for salt stack
Proxy minion allows a remote manager to administer devices that are unable to run a minion. salt is a powerful remote execution manager that can be used to administer servers in a fast and efficient way. . It allows commands to be executed across large groups of devices. This means systems can be easily managed, but data can also be easily gathered. Quick introspection into running systems becomes a reality. . Remote execution is usually used to set up a certain state on a remote system. Salt addresses this problem as well, the salt state system uses salt state files to define the state a server needs to be in. . Between the remote execution system, and state management Salt addresses the backbone of cloud and data center management. . This particular package provides the salt proxy minion. It is able to run salt modules and states on remote hosts via a proxy which transmits appropriate commands to devices and replies with the results of said commands.
Homepage: http://saltstack.org/
Version: 2017.7.4+dfsg1-1
Section: universe/admin