Installing Salt on Centos 7

Install the latest version of the salt from the salt repo directly instead of the epel repo as the salt repo provides you with the latest version of the salt available while epel repo is having slightly lower end packages as of now due to the dependency issues of packages of lower version.

Create a following salt repo in the /etc/yum.repos.d directory

vim saltstack.repo

yum install salt-master

yum install salt-minion

yum install salt-ssh

yum install salt-syndic

yum install salt-cloud