AWS AMI - Salt service.running failure

Published by Alp Kose on May 17th, 2018

This is what happens when you connect you Amazon AMI instance to Salt stack, service.running fails.

'service' __virtual__ returned False: No service execution module loaded: check support for service management on Amazon Linux AMI

Solution is simple, just put in the following on salt minion:

providers:
  service: rh_service
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/47561