---
page_title: 'Provisioner: salt-masterless'
description: >-
  The salt-masterless Terraform provisioner provisions machines built by
  Terraform
---

# Salt Masterless Provisioner

Type: `salt-masterless`

The `salt-masterless` Terraform provisioner provisions machines built by Terraform
using [Salt](http://saltstack.com/) states, without connecting to a Salt master. The `salt-masterless` provisioner supports `ssh` [connections](/language/resources/provisioners/connection).

!> **Note:** This provisioner was removed in the 0.15.0 version of Terraform after being deprecated as of Terraform 0.13.4. For most common situations there are better alternatives to using provisioners. For more information, see [the main Provisioners page](/language/resources/provisioners).

## Requirements

The `salt-masterless` provisioner has some prerequisites. `cURL` must be available on the remote host.

## Example usage

The example below is fully functional.

```hcl

provisioner "salt-masterless" {
    "local_state_tree" = "/srv/salt"
}
```

## Argument Reference

The reference of available configuration options is listed below. The only
required argument is the path to your local salt state tree.

Optional:

- `bootstrap_args` (string) - Arguments to send to the bootstrap script. Usage
  is somewhat documented on
  [github](https://github.com/saltstack/salt-bootstrap), but the [script
  itself](https://github.com/saltstack/salt-bootstrap/blob/develop/bootstrap-salt.sh)
  has more detailed usage instructions. By default, no arguments are sent to
  the script.

- `disable_sudo` (boolean) - By default, the bootstrap install command is prefixed with `sudo`. When using a
  Docker builder, you will likely want to pass `true` since `sudo` is often not pre-installed.

- `remote_pillar_roots` (string) - The path to your remote [pillar
  roots](http://docs.saltstack.com/ref/configuration/master.html#pillar-configuration).
  default: `/srv/pillar`. This option cannot be used with `minion_config`.

- `remote_state_tree` (string) - The path to your remote [state
  tree](http://docs.saltstack.com/ref/states/highstate.html#the-salt-state-tree).
  default: `/srv/salt`. This option cannot be used with `minion_config`.

- `local_pillar_roots` (string) - The path to your local [pillar
  roots](http://docs.saltstack.com/ref/configuration/master.html#pillar-configuration).
  This will be uploaded to the `remote_pillar_roots` on the remote.

- `local_state_tree` (string) - The path to your local [state
  tree](http://docs.saltstack.com/ref/states/highstate.html#the-salt-state-tree).
  This will be uploaded to the `remote_state_tree` on the remote.

- `custom_state` (string) - A state to be run instead of `state.highstate`.
  Defaults to `state.highstate` if unspecified.

- `minion_config_file` (string) - The path to your local [minion config
  file](http://docs.saltstack.com/ref/configuration/minion.html). This will be
  uploaded to the `/etc/salt` on the remote. This option overrides the
  `remote_state_tree` or `remote_pillar_roots` options.

- `skip_bootstrap` (boolean) - By default the salt provisioner runs [salt
  bootstrap](https://github.com/saltstack/salt-bootstrap) to install salt. Set
  this to true to skip this step.

- `temp_config_dir` (string) - Where your local state tree will be copied
  before moving to the `/srv/salt` directory. Default is `/tmp/salt`.

- `no_exit_on_failure` (boolean) - Terraform will exit if the `salt-call` command
  fails. Set this option to true to ignore Salt failures.

- `log_level` (string) - Set the logging level for the `salt-call` run.

- `salt_call_args` (string) - Additional arguments to pass directly to `salt-call`. See
  [salt-call](https://docs.saltstack.com/ref/cli/salt-call.html) documentation for more
  information. By default no additional arguments (besides the ones Terraform generates)
  are passed to `salt-call`.

- `salt_bin_dir` (string) - Path to the `salt-call` executable. Useful if it is not
  on the PATH.