Salt-bootstrap: Doesn't work with Amazon Linux 2 ami-4f89f53

[nodakai]

Description of Issue/Question

$ sudo bash bootstrap-salt.sh
 *  INFO: Running version: 2017.12.13
 *  INFO: Executed by: bash
 *  INFO: Command line: 'bootstrap-salt.sh '

 *  INFO: System Information:
 *  INFO:   CPU:          GenuineIntel
 *  INFO:   CPU Arch:     x86_64
 *  INFO:   OS Name:      Linux
 *  INFO:   OS Version:   4.9.76-38.79.amzn2.x86_64
 *  INFO:   Distribution: Amazon Linux AMI 2.0

 * ERROR: End of life distributions are not supported.
 * ERROR: Please consider upgrading to the next stable. See:
 * ERROR:     https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-ami/

bash -x displays sth like this

+ __check_end_of_life_versions
+ case "${DISTRO_NAME_L}" in
+ '[' 2 -lt 2012 ']'
+ echoerror 'End of life distributions are not supported.'

Apparently the script picked up 2 from "2.0" and complained it's less than 2012.

• https://github.com/saltstack/salt-bootstrap/blob/develop/bootstrap-salt.sh#L1606

Given the new versioning scheme for Amazon Linux 2 series, maybe anything below 10 should pass the check?

Versions and Systems

$ bash install-salt.sh -v
install-salt.sh -- Version 2017.12.13

$ cat /etc/system-release
Amazon Linux release 2.0 (2017.12) LTS Release Candidate
$ cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Amazon Linux"
VERSION="2.0 (2017.12)"
ID="amzn"
ID_LIKE="centos rhel fedora"
VERSION_ID="2.0"
PRETTY_NAME="Amazon Linux 2.0 (2017.12) LTS Release Candidate"
ANSI_COLOR="0;33"
CPE_NAME="cpe:2.3:o:amazon:amazon_linux:2.0"
HOME_URL="https://amazonlinux.com/"

[nodakai]

Hmm, the RPM doesn't support Amazon Linux 2 yet after all... saltstack/salt#45154

[rallytime]

@nodakai my apologies for the late response here, but yeah, the packages for Amazon Linux 2 haven't been released yet. Once they are, we definitely should get the bootstrap script to support it.

[piersf]

@rallytime is there any date where those packages are going to be made available?

Thanks,

[rallytime]

@piersf That's a good question - I am not sure what the plans are for that presently, but I can check.

In the mean time, if someone wants to take a stab at adding git install support for this, that would be a good way to get this working for people until the packages are available.

[stv-io]

If it's any help (I can't quote the details, stating solely on memory, based on a quick and dirty test) a pip install salt worked without any hiccups for the more recently available AMI for Amazon Linux 2 a few weeks ago.

[ghost]

Hi @rallytime , are there any updates re package support for Amazon Linux 2?

I'm currently getting by installing from pip but I would really appreciate the RPMs.

Thanks

[yongchao88]

I also hit this problem with rpm
finally succeed with pip

[adminericjacobs]

Is there any update on getting Amazon Linux 2 RPMs and boot-strap support?

[rallytime]

Does anyone here have a moment to test the changes in #1287? (Thanks @mchugh19 for picking this up!)

[Ch3LL]

Closing for now as there are no responses, but please let me know if i need to re-open :)

[lorengordon]

Just tested with salt-bootstrap 2018.08.15 and still doesn't seem to work...

# sh bootstrap-salt.sh git v2018.3.3
 *  INFO: Running version: 2018.08.15
 *  INFO: Executed by: sh
 *  INFO: Command line: 'bootstrap-salt.sh git v2018.3.3'

 *  INFO: System Information:
 *  INFO:   CPU:          GenuineIntel
 *  INFO:   CPU Arch:     x86_64
 *  INFO:   OS Name:      Linux
 *  INFO:   OS Version:   4.14.77-81.59.amzn2.x86_64
 *  INFO:   Distribution: Amazon Linux AMI 2

 * ERROR: End of life distributions are not supported.
 * ERROR: Please consider upgrading to the next stable. See:
 * ERROR:     https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-ami/

[lorengordon]

Aha, no release yet. If I use what's in the develop branch, it works!

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/saltstack/salt-bootstrap/develop/bootstrap-salt.sh

[ninjada]

just got this working with the dev branch bootstrap too.

any eta for when this is going to be released ie. stable branch? been in the process of prepping to upgrade my entire infrastructure and move it to amazon linux 2.

[Ch3LL]

We will need to do another release soon for the next feature release of salt but i dont have an exact ETA. Most likely within the next month. As a workaround you can use the develop script