How to delete salt-key from salt master

If you working on cleaning up the retired or decommissioned server or if you are deploying new VM with same name then you might want to cleanup the salt-key for those servers. so for that you need to login to the salt-master and then switch to saltadmin and then perform the following steps.

1. Switch to saltadmin using the following command

# sudo su - saltadmin

2. To delete the salt-key for the respective host use the following command

# salt-key -d <FQDN hostname?

# salt-key -d acg-vm1.acg.com

3. To check the salt version use the following command

# salt --versions-report

Salt Version:
           Salt: 2017.7.2
 
Dependency Versions:
           cffi: 1.11.2
       cherrypy: Not Installed
       dateutil: Not Installed
      docker-py: Not Installed
          gitdb: 2.0.3
      gitpython: 2.1.7
          ioflo: Not Installed
         Jinja2: 2.10
        libgit2: Not Installed
        libnacl: Not Installed
       M2Crypto: Not Installed
           Mako: Not Installed
   msgpack-pure: Not Installed
 msgpack-python: 0.4.8
   mysql-python: Not Installed
      pycparser: 2.18
       pycrypto: 2.6.1
   pycryptodome: Not Installed
         pygit2: Not Installed
         Python: 2.7.14 (default, Dec  4 2017, 20:10:15)
   python-gnupg: Not Installed
         PyYAML: 3.12
          PyZMQ: 16.0.3
           RAET: Not Installed
          smmap: 2.0.3
        timelib: Not Installed
        Tornado: 4.5.2
            ZMQ: 4.1.6
 
System Versions:
           dist: centos 7.8.2003 Core
         locale: UTF-8
        machine: x86_64
        release: 3.10.0-1127.8.2.el7.x86_64
         system: Linux
        version: CentOS Linux 7.8.2003 Core

4. To list all the salt-minion keys registered with salt-master you can run the following command.

# salt-key -L

October 06, 2021 Tags : Salt command

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