salt-users@googlegroups.com discussions for October 2014

16	[salt-users] 2014.7rc3 is out!

The new 2014.7 rc3 was just pushed up to pypi: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/salt/2014.7.0rc3 We anticipate that this will be the last RC which will become the final release of 2014.7. This is a VERY ...

Thomas S Hatch
Oct 3, 2014 at 9:04 pm
Oct 18, 2014 at 4:24 pm

15	[salt-users] minion firing event for master not working.

I am trying very simple test case, to fire a custom event from minion and hoping to listen that event on master. But for some reason it's not working, event got fires well on minion without any error ...

Jinendra Patel
Oct 10, 2014 at 1:57 pm
Oct 13, 2014 at 10:24 pm

14	[salt-users] how to make gpu grains present vendor information only

Hi, I am looking for a way to only present gpus vendor information via grains. The following commands give all information about gpus: "salt-call grains.item gpus" local: gpus: {'model': 'G84GL ...

Simon Gao
Oct 24, 2014 at 6:39 pm
Oct 28, 2014 at 6:55 am

12	[salt-users] Re: Help with ini_manage state

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David Kilcy
Oct 4, 2014 at 1:00 am
Nov 3, 2014 at 9:05 pm

12	[salt-users] The "right" way to patch

I've been seeing this command thrown around the internet lately <http://www.saltstack.com/salt-blog/2014/9/29/shellshock-automating-infrastructure-complexity as a solution to Shellshock: “salt ‘*’ ...

Adam Mendlik
Oct 1, 2014 at 4:57 pm
Oct 2, 2014 at 1:56 pm

10	[salt-users] Can't able to install a package (glusterfs) on minions using saltstack

Hi all, Am trying to install rpm packages on minions using salt. I succeeded for "smartmontools" package but its not working for "glusterfs" pacakges. I tried to change the name "glusterfs " to ...

Omkar
Oct 27, 2014 at 6:50 am
Oct 30, 2014 at 6:59 am

10	[salt-users] ESXi server as salt-master

Hi , Does anybody know is there is a support of salt for vmware esxi server? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Salt-users" group. To unsubscribe from this ...

AdiVM
Oct 21, 2014 at 5:20 pm
Oct 23, 2014 at 1:23 pm

9	[salt-users] Best practice pillar usage, merge or overrride global and node data?

Hi All, I'm halfway through my 'chef to salt' migration and had an epiphany in regards to pillar usage. Look at the pillar data below: # pillar/servers/srvxx.sls node_info: area: staging role ...

Gerard Petersen
Oct 14, 2014 at 12:47 pm
Oct 16, 2014 at 2:44 am

9	[salt-users] Override a certain state in the middle of SLS

I want to have two SLS structured in absolutely the same way except one state in the middle. The structure is similar to this: pre-install1: - ... pre-install2: - ... pre-install3: - .. ...

Ruslan Mustakov
Oct 9, 2014 at 5:43 am
Oct 9, 2014 at 12:41 pm

8	[salt-users] configuration management and package updates

Hello, I am new to Salt and have been doing my fair share of reading up on it lately. But there is one concept or use-case I am still not grasping fully which I would like to ask for help: I am a ...

Matthias Dahl
Oct 22, 2014 at 7:59 pm
Nov 3, 2014 at 4:44 pm

7	[salt-users] Custom Renderer help

Hi Guys, Was in IRC a few days ago and people reported success using the gpg renderer from the latest RC with the current stable release. I'm trying to set this up myself but am having trouble as I ...

Dave Chappelle
Oct 9, 2014 at 4:59 pm
Oct 30, 2014 at 4:39 pm

7	[salt-users] How to use salt-ssh for targeting range of IP's?

Hi all, I have to apply one patch on all servers, but on all server salt minions are not installed. So I was planning to use salt-ssh. But in /etc/salt/roster I don't want to mention all the servers ...

Pankaj ghadge
Oct 9, 2014 at 12:04 pm
Oct 22, 2014 at 8:26 am

7	[salt-users] Monitoring Saltstack

How do you guys monitor saltstack itself? I know I can use `salt-run manage.down' to get an idea of which minions aren't responding, but it's possible to get different results with runs very close ...

Charles Baker
Oct 8, 2014 at 4:20 pm
Oct 20, 2014 at 3:51 pm

7	[salt-users] Salt 2014.1.11 Released

We are pleased to announce the 2014.1.11 release of Salt! The release notes can be found here: http://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2014.1.11.html The sources are available on pypi ...

Colton Myers
Oct 6, 2014 at 7:20 pm
Oct 9, 2014 at 4:31 pm

6	[salt-users] Using salt to install and configure Jenkins plugins

Hi I've found the states files to install Jenkins in general. But I miss the information how to use salt to install and configure a specific Jenkins plugin. With the knowledge I have so far I think I ...

Markus Boos
Oct 29, 2014 at 10:17 am
Oct 30, 2014 at 10:53 pm

6	[salt-users] Salt Reactor dying

I'm trying to write a reactor to run a code deploy whenever it receives a webhook from github. When the reactor fires, the whole reactor process dies and prints the following log message 2014-10-28 ...

Tobias Macey
Oct 28, 2014 at 4:10 am
Oct 29, 2014 at 1:20 am

6	[salt-users] Some questions about pillars - calling pillars.get with a variable in a template and pillar data missing on some minions

I have the following pillar set up: /srv/pillar/top.sls: --------- base: - '*': - users And then in the users folder: /srv/pillar/users/init.sls: --------- admins: - jsmith jsmith: pub_keys: work ...

Tyler Field
Oct 16, 2014 at 6:54 pm
Oct 18, 2014 at 6:56 am

6	[salt-users] docker pull private registry

I'm in the midst of using salt to deploy docker containers i creating a small poc and I seem to get an error when trying to pull a docker image from a private registry. Is the state declaration I ...

Alex Casanova
Oct 14, 2014 at 1:28 am
Oct 14, 2014 at 4:02 pm

6	[salt-users] How to issue commands from a system other than the salt-master?

I may be missing something that may be obvious, but I'm not seeing it. I have a salt-master and multiple salt-minions working in a basic setup. My overall plan is to attempt to integrate salt as a ...

Jeff Vincent
Oct 9, 2014 at 11:50 pm
Oct 10, 2014 at 6:07 pm

5	[salt-users] How to pass variable to pillar get function parameter?

I am struggling to make this work: ... {% set appname = pillar['appName'] %} /tech/tomcat/props/myapp.cfg: file.managed: - name: /tech/tomcat/props/{{ salt['pillar.get']('{{ appname }}:name') }}.cfg ...

JW
Oct 3, 2014 at 1:36 pm
Nov 3, 2014 at 8:46 pm

5	[salt-users] how to install a modules?

When I issue this... salt '*' dpkg.file_list ...I get "dpkg.file_list' is not available." I'l go out on a limb here and guess that means I need to install modules.dpkg So how does one install a ...

Phlip
Oct 8, 2014 at 11:56 pm
Nov 3, 2014 at 9:11 am

5	[salt-users] for loop in pillar state file

I am using the following for loop in the pillar state file and it's does not return any output with 'salt '*' pillar.items apple' command and it is working fine without for loop with hardcode value ...

Arun Rajendran
Oct 31, 2014 at 8:08 am
Oct 31, 2014 at 4:32 pm

5	[salt-users] Error when using salt's schedule function

I am trying to schedule the running of a python script every minute using salt's schedule function. The version of my salt-master is : salt-master 2014.7.0rc2 (Helium) and I am targeting a single ...

Raghuram BK
Oct 28, 2014 at 10:51 am
Oct 29, 2014 at 7:22 am

5	[salt-users] Can't get syndic to work with 2014.7.0rc4

I have set up a master <-- syndic <-- minion configuration but when I run commands (eg: salt '*' test.ping) on the master, I can see them appear in the minion logs, but the master doesn't seem to get ...

Mark Gaylard
Oct 21, 2014 at 12:59 am
Oct 22, 2014 at 11:19 pm

5	[salt-users] Change not made into config file

Hi, I am seeing an issue with change not being made into a config file even if highstate log shows it should. For example, the log shows following lines, but "BASE dc=example,dc=com" is not added to ...

Simon Gao
Oct 20, 2014 at 10:13 pm
Oct 22, 2014 at 4:34 pm

5	[salt-users] pillar structure query

hi, i've structured some pillar data the following way: affiliate: customer1: property1: - item1 - item2 property2: key1: value1 key2: value2 normally i use that to walk over all affiliates and can ...

Pille
Oct 17, 2014 at 2:37 pm
Oct 18, 2014 at 4:17 pm

5	[salt-users] Status of Halite?

Hey all, What's the current status of the halite web Salt GUI? Are there any plans to get it out of pre-alpha? The last commit in the project is ~ 6 months old. Will Halite die? Arnold -- Arnold ...

Arnold Bechtoldt
Oct 14, 2014 at 2:21 pm
Oct 15, 2014 at 6:24 pm

5	[salt-users] [Formula] Could salt-core add some fork for saltstack-formula repos

Hi saltstack-cores, I have submitted the formulas related to the openstack installation to the stackforge’s repo[1]. In the future, I’d like to use the stackforge’s infrastructure. Like gerrit for ...

Lei Zhang
Oct 9, 2014 at 3:40 am
Oct 13, 2014 at 1:54 am

5	[salt-users] Mirrors for debian.saltstack.com

Hi, I noticed while upgrading to 2014.1.11 that debian.saltstack.com does not seem to be IPv6 capable. That was easy to circumvent [1], but I wonder : is there an official list of mirrors ? I just ...

Georges Racinet
Oct 9, 2014 at 7:07 pm
Oct 10, 2014 at 6:50 pm

4	[salt-users] Unicode error with 2014.1.13

I'm not getting this error after upgrading from 2014.1.10 to 2014.1.13. CentOS 6.5 from the epel-testing RPMs: [ERROR ] An un-handled exception was caught by salt's global exception handler ...

Robert Parker
Oct 27, 2014 at 6:50 pm
Nov 11, 2014 at 3:31 pm

4	[salt-users] Adding items to pillars

Is there some way to dynamically add items and values to pillars? For example, I am thinking of constructing a template for syncthing. Unfortunately, syncthing generates it's own "node id" which I ...

Gary Tang
Oct 30, 2014 at 8:28 pm
Nov 3, 2014 at 5:02 pm

4	[salt-users] Salt client/server architecture digram ?

Hi I am looking for overview salt communication diagram between clients and server(s). Preferably the diagram is drawn using Dia alike tools. If no such diagram exist already, I am tempting to create ...

T.J. Yang
Oct 27, 2014 at 9:16 pm
Oct 28, 2014 at 6:53 pm

4	[salt-users] referring pillar data within pillar

Hi, In one of my pillar sls files I am trying to looking another pillar data defined elsewhere like below. keystone.token: "{{ pillar['keystone']['admin_token'] }}" From my understanding pillar gets ...

Akilesh K
Oct 27, 2014 at 1:15 pm
Oct 28, 2014 at 1:34 am

4	[salt-users] module-syncing approaches

Hi all, i've been wondering how to make sure, that the modules on the minions are always in sync with the modules on the master. My current setup has 6 masters with 2000-4000 minions each, so ...

Volker Schwicking
Oct 27, 2014 at 3:14 pm
Oct 27, 2014 at 6:25 pm

4	[salt-users] salt-run and custom runners

If I write a custom runner and put it on the master in a dir specified by the runner_dirs config setting, I can run 'salt-run xxx.xxx' on the master and it works. If I run the same command on a ...

Mark Gaylard
Oct 21, 2014 at 7:06 am
Oct 22, 2014 at 1:20 pm

4	[salt-users] sqlite returner

I have a two questions on the sqlite returner. First, the documentation says to "append '--return sqlite' ". However I cannot get it working unless I append "--return sqlite3". is the documentation ...

Nrb1
Oct 17, 2014 at 12:26 am
Oct 17, 2014 at 7:33 pm

4	[salt-users] Newbie need good tutorial to start

Hello All, I'm new with saltstack, can you guys tell me where are good tutorial to start with saltstack ? Regards, -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ...

Bigie
Oct 12, 2014 at 4:08 am
Oct 17, 2014 at 7:08 am

4	[salt-users] Salt SSH on PYPI - no binary deps!!!

I just uploaded the 2014.7 rc3 version of salt-ssh up to pypi, while salt-ssh is part of the full sat install this allows for salt-ssh to be installed from pypi without any binary deps! Pure python! ...

Thomas S Hatch
Oct 3, 2014 at 9:09 pm
Oct 6, 2014 at 9:32 pm

4	[salt-users] identifying unresponsive minions amongst 1000's from cli

sigh... I busted a chunk of my minions (salt is not running, basically) and I would like to identify them so that i can fix them manually. My challenge I have is that the 'test' module returns ...

1up
Oct 1, 2014 at 9:11 pm
Oct 1, 2014 at 9:39 pm

3	[salt-users] git branches

I know you don't have to use master the name of the master branch in git, but I was just wondering why you chose not to do that with salt. I was just curious if there was a technical reason since it ...

Warren Turkal
Oct 9, 2014 at 4:48 pm
Nov 13, 2014 at 12:16 am

3	[salt-users] Saltstack not restarting service on watch

I am currently using the following SLS to run memcached. Oddly, after a update of salt://memcached-prod-mainws/memcached.conf , memcached does not restart on the clients. memcached: pkg: - name ...

Celene B
Oct 3, 2014 at 8:20 pm
Nov 4, 2014 at 11:25 pm

3	[salt-users] Matching Pillar items to hostname

I currently have a pilar item in the form of websvrprod-ips: ---------- server3: 192.168.6.103 server2: 192.168.6.102 server1: 192.168.6.101 Is there some way to match the ID of the salt minion with ...

Celene B
Oct 3, 2014 at 4:36 am
Nov 3, 2014 at 8:52 pm

3	[salt-users] SaltStack Silicon Valley Meetup Livestream (tonight!)

Thanks to the Cisco WebEx team, tonight's SaltStack Silicon Valley meetup (hosted by Cisco) is now available via live stream. The meetup and video stream will begin at 6pm on Tuesday, Oct. 28 ...

Colton Myers
Oct 28, 2014 at 5:12 pm
Oct 31, 2014 at 7:11 pm

3	[salt-users] How to properly upgrade Salt 2014.7 rc4 to 2014.1.13

Hi All, I've been migrating chef to salt, running Salt *2014.7 rc4* in my staging area. What is the cleanest way to upgrade to Salt *2014.1.13*? Simply bootstrap the stable from git? Complete ...

Gerard Petersen
Oct 30, 2014 at 10:56 am
Oct 31, 2014 at 8:35 am

3	[salt-users] Beginner question: How to change agent minion_id from master ?

Hi I am including salt-minion RHEL package in RHEL 5/6 VMWare template with salt master set to our salt master server. The VM will get a dhcp hostname/ip and also the dhcp hostname as minion_id. The ...

T.J. Yang
Oct 24, 2014 at 8:39 pm
Oct 25, 2014 at 3:34 am

3	[salt-users] deamon vs upstart conundrum

Hey All, I want to use salt to to manage my salt-minion config so I made this simple salt state... salt-minion: service: - running - enable: true - watch: - file: /etc/salt/minion /etc/salt/minion ...

Justin Vincent
Oct 23, 2014 at 11:54 pm
Oct 24, 2014 at 6:45 pm

3	[salt-users] Salt Jinja Template - list all IP addresses under x.603, without specifying the physical interface name

Hi, I was wondering how to use regex with grains, I want to do the following in a Jinja template file: {% set ip_addresses = salt['publish.publish']('role:webserver', 'network.ip_addrs', '**.603*', ...

Marketing
Oct 18, 2014 at 9:50 am
Oct 21, 2014 at 12:15 pm

3	[salt-users] Relative File/Directory Mode Setting?

Hello: I'm trying to implement some security policies via Salt running on my Linux nodes. My security auditors specify a list of directories whose files need to have permissions set via stripping ...

Thomas Jones
Oct 16, 2014 at 12:30 pm
Oct 17, 2014 at 11:06 pm

3	[salt-users] salt-cloud: Receiving profile error: failure to load private key to minion. Exit code 0

Hi, I am trying to use salt-cloud to deploy instances to AWS. The instance is created and starts up but I receive the following error: Error: There was a profile error: Failed to upload ...

Tyler Field
Oct 9, 2014 at 10:07 pm
Oct 10, 2014 at 7:16 pm

3	[salt-users] YAML Pillar and Jinja2 loop is driving me crazy.

Hello guys I really need some help with creating a jinja-loop in a state that i am building. The basic state looks like this: apache2: apt: - held This will make sure that the apache2 package is not ...

Sebastian söderqvist
Oct 8, 2014 at 10:17 am
Oct 9, 2014 at 6:54 pm

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