Installation

The extension must be installed into the same Python environment Salt uses on each minion you want Alpine support on. Saltexts are not distributed automatically via the fileserver like custom modules.

State

Install saltext-alpine:
  pip.installed:
    - name: saltext-alpine

Onedir installation

salt-pip install saltext-alpine

Regular installation

pip install saltext-alpine

Salt itself is expected to be provided by the environment. If it should be pip-managed as well, request the salt extra:

pip install 'saltext-alpine[salt]'

Hint

On Alpine, Salt is typically installed from the community repository. The Python environment Salt uses is the system Python, so a regular pip install is correct for most setups. If you have installed Salt into a virtual environment, activate it first.

Verifying the installation

After installing, confirm that Salt has loaded the modules on your Alpine minion:

salt <minion-id> sys.doc pkg.install
salt <minion-id> sys.doc service.start

Both commands should return documentation pulled from this extension. If they return nothing or show a different provider, see

:ref: module-provider-override in the Salt documentation.