Issues communicating with minion

[Hera]

Hi,

I am new to salt. I am having an issue connecting to my minion. My minion is an aws ec2 instance that I provision using salt-cloud. To do this I followed the steps explained here:
https://pelle.io/provision-ec2-with-tomcat-and-deploy-a-web-application-using-salt/
After I successfully provision an aws ec2 instance I tried to send commands to my minion.
Here are the commands, with their results:
From the master side:
1.
 salt-key -L
Accepted Keys:
myminion
Unaccepted Keys:
Rejected Keys:

2.
salt -v '*' test.ping
Executing job with jid 20141208113834907796
-------------------------------------------

myminion:
    Minion did not return. [No response]

3.
salt '*' test.ping -l debug
[DEBUG   ] Reading configuration from /etc/salt/master
[DEBUG   ] Using cached minion ID from /etc/salt/minion_id: <my user name>
[DEBUG   ] Missing configuration file: ~/.saltrc
[DEBUG   ] Configuration file path: /etc/salt/master
[DEBUG   ] Reading configuration from /etc/salt/master
[DEBUG   ] Using cached minion ID from /etc/salt/minion_id: <my user name>
[DEBUG   ] Missing configuration file: ~/.saltrc
[DEBUG   ] MasterEvent PUB socket URI: ipc:///var/run/salt/master/master_event_pub.ipc
[DEBUG   ] MasterEvent PULL socket URI: ipc:///var/run/salt/master/master_event_pull.ipc
[DEBUG   ] LazyLoaded local_cache.get_load
[DEBUG   ] get_iter_returns for jid 20141208114954513187 sent to set(['myminion']) will timeout at 11:49:59.515437
[DEBUG   ] MasterEvent PUB socket URI: ipc:///var/run/salt/master/master_event_pub.ipc
[DEBUG   ] MasterEvent PULL socket URI: ipc:///var/run/salt/master/master_event_pull.ipc
[DEBUG   ] Checking whether jid 20141208114954513187 is still running

4.
salt-run manage.status
down:
    - myminion
up:

I would also like to point out that I ran the following command to open the ports:
 ufw allow salt

From the minion side:
1.
salt-minion -l debug
[DEBUG   ] Reading configuration from /etc/salt/minion
[DEBUG   ] Configuration file path: /etc/salt/minion
[INFO    ] Setting up the Salt Minion "myminion"
[DEBUG   ] Created pidfile: /var/run/salt-minion.pid
[DEBUG   ] Reading configuration from /etc/salt/minion
[DEBUG   ] Attempting to authenticate with the Salt Master at <myIp>
[DEBUG   ] Loaded minion key: /etc/salt/pki/minion/minion.pem
[ERROR   ] Attempt to authenticate with the salt master failed

Note: The OS for both the master and the minion are ubuntu

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you for your time.

Best Regards,

Hera

[Colton Myers]

Hrm, strange.

I guess the first step I would take is to run `salt-key -d myminion` on the master to delete the minion's key. Then restart the minion, and then run `salt-key -a myminion` on the master to accept the key again.

See if that resolves your problem, I'm curious if it's a key issue or some other issue.

--
Colton Myers

Platform Engineer, SaltStack

@basepi on Github/Twitter/IRC

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