[Bug]: salt-cloud in 3007.9 not generating any events when run on a minion (with salt-master installed but not used)

What happened?

I built a separate minion with salt, salt-minion, salt-cloud & salt-master 3007.9 installed on Rocky Linux 9.6. The minion is part of our MAIN salt-master with all VM's and was built to separate the salt-cloud/ VM deployment functionality away from the main salt-master. There is an extensive implementation of salt-minion events being generated now with an extensive implementation of reactors in place and working.

When creating empty DHCP/EFI VM's for booting highly custom OS images in a HPC environment, no
salt / cloud / <VM> / *
event messages are being generated (or received on the MAIN salt-master.

I have tested simulating the events from the minion using salt-call

salt-call event.send 'salt/cloud/TEST/created' profile="test-pro" provider="cli" name="sid"
local:
    True

The captured event on the master using:

salt-run state.event tag='salt/cloud/*/*'

salt/cloud/TEST/created {"id": "salt-cloud-dev.our-company.edu.au", "tag": "salt/cloud/TEST/created", "data": {"profile": "test-pro", "provider": "cli", "name": "sid", "__pub_fun": "event.send", "__pub_pid": 212469, "__pub_jid": "20251202231039079379", "__pub_tgt": "salt-call"}, "cmd": "_minion_event", "ts": 1764717039, "_stamp": "2025-12-02T23:10:39.093395"}

VM is created using:

salt-cloud -p minimal testing-vm-100 -l debug
and
salt-cloud -p minimal testing-vm-100

VM is being deleted with:

salt-cloud -d testing-vm-100

Type of salt install

Official rpm

Major version

3007.x

What supported OS are you seeing the problem on? Can select multiple. (If bug appears on an unsupported OS, please open a GitHub Discussion instead)

oraclelinux-9, rockylinux-9

salt --versions-report output

# salt --versions-report
Salt Version:
          Salt: 3007.9

Python Version:
        Python: 3.10.19 (main, Oct 30 2025, 04:53:28) [GCC 11.2.0]

Dependency Versions:
          cffi: 2.0.0
      cherrypy: unknown
  cryptography: 42.0.5
      dateutil: 2.8.2
     docker-py: Not Installed
         gitdb: Not Installed
     gitpython: Not Installed
        Jinja2: 3.1.6
       libgit2: Not Installed
  looseversion: 1.3.0
      M2Crypto: Not Installed
          Mako: Not Installed
       msgpack: 1.0.7
  msgpack-pure: Not Installed
  mysql-python: Not Installed
     packaging: 24.0
     pycparser: 2.21
      pycrypto: Not Installed
  pycryptodome: 3.19.1
        pygit2: Not Installed
  python-gnupg: 0.5.2
        PyYAML: 6.0.1
         PyZMQ: 25.1.2
        relenv: 0.21.2
         smmap: Not Installed
       timelib: 0.3.0
       Tornado: 6.5.2
           ZMQ: 4.3.4

Salt Package Information:
  Package Type: onedir

System Versions:
          dist: rocky 9.6 Blue Onyx
        locale: utf-8
       machine: x86_64
       release: 5.14.0-503.14.1.el9_5.x86_64
        system: Linux
       version: Rocky Linux 9.6 Blue Onyx

Reproduce the issue with salt-cloud on the described minion setup, then compare its behavior with salt-call event.send and salt-run state.event using the shown event tags. Trace the salt-cloud create and delete commands to determine why events are not generated or received; done means the expected salt/cloud/ events appear on the main salt-master.