Aria Automation creating cloud profile with 64bit installer for 32bit salt minion deployment

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

Attempting to deploy 32-bit Salt minion agents onto Windows may result in the following error, or similar failures to deploy, even though. you have the 32-bit installer located in the correct place on the Salt master (/etc/salt/cloud.deploy.d/ ).

File \"/opt/saltstack/salt/lib/python3.10/site-packages/salt/utils/cloud.py\", line 1369, in deploy_windows\n    raise Exception(f\"Fail installer {ret_code}\")\nException: Fail installer 2\n"

 

 

Environment

SaltProject - 3006+

Aria Config - 8.16+

Cause

The Aria Config API only supports detecting AMD64/x86_64 for Debian and Windows VM's.

Resolution

Create a blueprint specific for the target OS. Then in the blueprint under the minionDeployment section add the following lines:

additionalAuthParams:
  profile:
    win_installer: /path/on/server/to/32-bit_installer.exe