Latest stable build from the selected branch:
x86_64: salt-2016.3.1-3314-gc6700a2-x86_64.pkg | md5
The output of md5 <salt pkg> should match the contents of the
corresponding md5 file.
brew install saltstack
It should be noted that Homebrew explicitly discourages the use of sudo:
Homebrew is designed to work without using sudo. You can decide to use it but we strongly recommend not to do so. If you have used sudo and run into a bug then it is likely to be the cause. Please don’t file a bug report unless you can reproduce it after reinstalling Homebrew from scratch without using sudo
sudo port install salt
When only using the OS X system's pip, install this way:
sudo pip install salt
To run salt-master on OS X, sudo add this configuration option to the /etc/salt/master file:
max_open_files: 8192
On versions previous to OS X 10.10 (Yosemite), increase the root user maxfiles limit:
sudo launchctl limit maxfiles 4096 8192
Note
On OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) and higher, maxfiles should not be adjusted. The default limits are sufficient in all but the most extreme scenarios. Overriding these values with the setting below will cause system instability!
Now the salt-master should run without errors:
sudo salt-master --log-level=all
Now go to the Configuring Salt page.