salt-users@googlegroups.com discussions for February 2015

14	[salt-users] 2014.7.1 and epel6 timeline

I see that the 2014.7.1 version has been in testing for epel6 for 2 weeks now. Is there a timeline for promoting that to non-testing? Thanks, wt -- You received this message because you are ...

Warren Turkal
Feb 2, 2015 at 6:59 pm
Feb 12, 2015 at 8:38 pm

13	[salt-users] New vsftpd formula

All, I'd like to contribute a vsftpd formula to salt-formulas. I mainly took the openssh example and adapted to work for vsftpd. I removed stuff that didn't make sense for vsftpd. My formula is ...

RabidCicada
Feb 27, 2015 at 3:29 am
Mar 5, 2015 at 4:04 am

12	[salt-users] Orchestration in Custom State Modules

Hi all, I am writing a state module that will build a distributed system. This system has a master-slave architecture. The order in which the state is enforced on each node matters. For example, I ...

Joseph Lorenzini
Feb 27, 2015 at 2:09 am
Mar 8, 2015 at 5:18 am

12	[salt-users] window software repository

can any one tell me how to configure window package installation process ? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Salt-users" group. To unsubscribe from this ...

Rahul kumar Patel
Feb 11, 2015 at 10:43 am
Feb 16, 2015 at 12:46 pm

10	[salt-users] 2015.2.0 Release Candidate!

Hey everyone, We're getting close to the release of 2015.2.0! We have our first release candidate (v2015.2.0rc1) ready and would love help testing before release! ...

Colton Myers
Feb 11, 2015 at 7:34 pm
Feb 14, 2015 at 12:19 pm

9	[salt-users] Salt 2014.7.2 Released

We are pleased to announce the 2014.7.2 release of Salt! The release notes can be found here: http://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2014.7.2.html The sources are available on PyPI ...

Colton Myers
Feb 19, 2015 at 4:20 pm
Mar 6, 2015 at 9:36 am

9	[salt-users] reactor is not working

Hi, It seems that reactor is well working feature of saltstack . But for some reason I am not able to make it work. what am I doing wrong? */etc/salt/master.d/reactor.conf * reactor: - ...

Spare Slant
Feb 16, 2015 at 2:44 pm
Feb 19, 2015 at 9:18 am

9	[salt-users] anyone using raet transport?

I was excited to see raet being released as an alternate transport. Has anyone switched over to it? What are your experiences with it so far? Reliable? Fast? etc... Thanks -- Romeo -- You received ...

Romeo Theriault
Feb 5, 2015 at 7:30 pm
Feb 11, 2015 at 8:33 pm

8	[salt-users] GitFS backend with environments - serving from master branch only

In trying to learn how to use environments along with a GitFS backend I am running into some problems. My *environments work fine from using file_roots*, however when I use a GitFS backend it is not ...

Monosij Forums
Feb 27, 2015 at 5:41 am
Mar 1, 2015 at 6:12 am

8	[salt-users] Job results reports via returners

Hi guys, was wondering if anyone has examples of setting up Salt w any kind of reporting piece, either open source or proprietary. My higher ups are asking if Salt is capable of giving them job ...

Mike r
Feb 17, 2015 at 5:38 pm
Feb 18, 2015 at 2:44 pm

8	[salt-users] Is 2015.2 going to have any +1/-1 testing in it's release goals?

I am trying to understand salt's philosophy with regard to +1/-1 compatibility for releases that increment only the third part of the version number. I know the currently 2014.7.0 is not compatible ...

Warren Turkal
Feb 17, 2015 at 8:30 pm
Feb 17, 2015 at 11:00 pm

7	[salt-users] Managing crontab of linux users. But allow edits on server

Hi, in our company devops edit crontabs on linux servers since ages. I mean the crontabs of linux service users stored in /var/spool/cron/crontabs/customer_foo_prod They get edited like this: ssh ...

Thomas Güttler
Feb 27, 2015 at 3:25 pm
Mar 2, 2015 at 9:44 am

7	[salt-users] inconsistent number of results when running jobs from master

We are running a salt server with ~50-60 clients (will be many more soon) and seeing inconsistent results when we try to issue commands to the minions from the master. If we have 60 clients we may ...

Paul F
Feb 17, 2015 at 12:31 am
Feb 23, 2015 at 4:25 pm

7	[salt-users] pillar_roots and file_roots variable in Salt .py sls files

Hi, This might be trivial, but somehow I am not able to find. What are the corresponding variables for "pillar_roots" and "file_roots" . I have a sls file based on py template. That .py template file ...

Spare Slant
Feb 9, 2015 at 4:03 pm
Feb 10, 2015 at 11:34 am

6	[salt-users] Alternate repo for installing Salt on RHEL/CentOS 5

Recently, some packages in EPEL5 have been orphaned and removed from the repositories, making new Salt installs on RHEL/CentOS 5 impossible using EPEL. As a response to this, I have created the ...

Erik Johnson
Feb 18, 2015 at 11:20 pm
Feb 20, 2015 at 4:13 pm

6	[salt-users] Salt to trigger Jenkins job

Hi everyone, I'm looking for a way to implement a trigger from SALT to Jenkins. The expected flow should be: Salt triggering Jenkins Jenkins job executed result string/json will be sent back to Salt ...

Elad T.
Feb 3, 2015 at 3:26 pm
Feb 15, 2015 at 12:56 pm

5	[salt-users] SALT 1.7.1 Errors on Any SLS file

Hello need a bit of help , hoping to talk to someone more knowledgeable than i on salt, i am new to salt. Running Oracle Linux 6.6 *FROM MASTER* salt --versions-report Salt: 2014.7.1 Python: 2.6.6 ...

Searchq
Feb 26, 2015 at 12:00 am
Feb 26, 2015 at 6:21 pm

5	[salt-users] Making data / tag information available to a runner, started by the reactor

I'm trying to do something that sounds relatively easy. But, so far I have not had much luck. What I'm trying to do is use the webhook system to drive a runner. And, I need the reactor data to be ...

William Cannon
Feb 19, 2015 at 12:24 am
Feb 24, 2015 at 6:43 pm

5	[salt-users] salt-master

can any one tell me simple steps requeird to create saltstack master on linux or window -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Salt-users" group. To unsubscribe ...

Rahul kumar Patel
Feb 4, 2015 at 11:44 am
Feb 17, 2015 at 6:59 am

4	Re: [salt-users] Re: Streaming output from minions

I noticed that salt.states.cmd.run now has a "use_vt=True/False" option. However, if you set "use_vt: True" in your cmd.run state, you don't get real time output under 2014.7.2. What does it take to ...

Robert Parker
Feb 27, 2015 at 9:53 pm
Mar 6, 2015 at 10:08 am

4	[salt-users] weird whitespace problem getting data out of cmd.run nssm on Windows

Hi I'm trying to build a simple state module around nssm, but I'm running into a problem where any output on stdout gets interpolated with lots of whitespace. For a service named "myService" running ...

Barry Laffoy
Feb 27, 2015 at 2:26 pm
Mar 2, 2015 at 3:17 pm

4	[salt-users] 2 new formulas: asterisk and cert

Hi all, i created two new formulas: - https://github.com/daschatten/asterisk-formula Installs and configures asterisk. - https://github.com/daschatten/cert-formula Deploys certificates and keys ...

Daschatten
Feb 21, 2015 at 11:38 pm
Mar 1, 2015 at 7:45 pm

4	[salt-users] Preventing comma from being added at last loop occurance.

If I have a jinja loop similar to {% foreach cat, catdesc in pillar['cats'].iteritems() %} {% if catdesc['catcolor'] is defined %} {{ cat }} is {{ catdesc['catcolor'] }}, {% else %} {{ cat }} has no ...

StartledPhoenix
Feb 24, 2015 at 5:41 pm
Feb 28, 2015 at 6:05 pm

4	[salt-users] Module not Found

I get this error when i debug using salt-call. I am not able to proceed further and spot the mistake can anyone help me? C:\salt salt-call state.show_highstate -l debug [DEBUG ] Reading configuration ...

Nancy Paul
Feb 20, 2015 at 11:54 am
Feb 20, 2015 at 11:08 pm

4	[salt-users] KeyError: 'elasticsearch.returner'

When trying to use the elasticsearch returner I'm getting the following errors in the minion log: [ERROR ] The return failed for job 20150210122417687697 'elasticsearch.returner' [ERROR ] Traceback ...

Clint Armstrong
Feb 10, 2015 at 5:44 pm
Feb 11, 2015 at 4:08 pm

4	[salt-users] correct use of events ?

Hi, I have long list of various tasks that takes around half an hour to execute using salt. So far going good. However during that half an hour execution I cannot really see what is happening . I am ...

Spare Slant
Feb 2, 2015 at 8:57 pm
Feb 10, 2015 at 11:33 am

4	[salt-users] watch requisite troubles

I am using salt 2014.7.0 from epel6. I am getting some strange behavior with the following salt://haproxy/lab.sls state module: {% set haproxy_version = '1.5.11' -%} /usr/sbin/haproxy: file.managed ...

Warren Turkal
Feb 2, 2015 at 9:08 pm
Feb 2, 2015 at 10:07 pm

4	[salt-users] Persistent master validation

Hello, In a typical master - multiple Linux minions I'm trying to enforce a certain state for some /etc/ files, for example my logic would be as below. Being new to saltstack I'm not sure how to ...

John C
Feb 1, 2015 at 10:27 pm
Feb 2, 2015 at 5:26 pm

3	[salt-users] pydio-formula submission

Hello, I just pushed a pydio formula on github, and I'd like to submit it to saltstack-formulas, here it is : https://github.com/sbrefort/pydio-formula Best regards -- You received this message ...

Stéphanie Bréfort
Feb 20, 2015 at 9:39 am
Mar 1, 2015 at 12:05 pm

3	[salt-users] Basic privileged data/security design question - grains, pillar, and environments - are environments the final answer?

Hi all, Trying to keep this as short as possible. I really appreciate anyone with the time and coffee to read through this. Disclaimer: I am relatively new to saltstack even though I have taken the ...

Sandy
Feb 20, 2015 at 10:48 pm
Feb 27, 2015 at 8:44 pm

3	[salt-users] preserving ssh host keys on rebuild

I've been trying to figure out a "secure" way to preserve ssh host keys using salt when a node gets rebuilt. I'm fairly new to salt, so maybe there's something obvious that I'm missing. Essentially, ...

Todd Stansell
Feb 26, 2015 at 8:26 pm
Feb 27, 2015 at 9:19 am

3	[salt-users] planned releases and development branches

Devs, I've been working on an issue @ https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/20937. I have a couple questions. 1. I didn't know what the code names for the upcoming releases (or even the current ...

Warren Turkal
Feb 25, 2015 at 8:54 pm
Feb 26, 2015 at 9:34 pm

3	[salt-users] Returners delivering inconsistent data to job cache

Hi, I'm currently working on a script to get some useful information out of saltstack to monitor its execution but have run into an issue. I get a list of jobs from the cache and then iterate over ...

Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
Feb 24, 2015 at 7:04 pm
Feb 26, 2015 at 8:37 pm

3	[salt-users] Recursive requisite found

Howdy! I'm getting a rather confusing "Recursive requisite found" error while trying to automate a wordpress install. There are no other references to the id "/var/www/" in my file. I'm guessing that ...

Gpeterson
Feb 25, 2015 at 6:52 pm
Feb 26, 2015 at 3:46 pm

3	Re: [salt-users] Re: Minion stuck believen highstate is still running.

Having the same problem. Tried to kill job, but it doesn't work. See console output: [root@kdev salt]# salt kdev0016 state.highstate kdev0016: Data failed to compile: ---------- The function ...

Dirk Warnich
Feb 25, 2015 at 1:50 pm
Feb 26, 2015 at 6:37 am

3	[salt-users] Pillar application for defining data for separate machines/environments

So before going down one path, I'm just trying to get alternate views (if any).. There are a couple issues fundamental issues that I want to deal with. I'll choose one as an example but basically the ...

Jmacfar
Feb 18, 2015 at 11:08 pm
Feb 22, 2015 at 11:45 pm

3	[salt-users] Restart salt-minion, is this question in the FAQ still valid?

This one: http://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/faq.html#what-is-the-best-way-to-restart-a-salt-daemon-using-salt Because I'm restarting salt-minion in my recipes for a long time and I didn't have any ...

Diego Woitasen
Feb 7, 2015 at 4:17 pm
Feb 16, 2015 at 8:59 am

3	[salt-users] Windows Repository - Recognizing Applications

Dear Salt Stack Community, I have an issue regarding the Windows Software Repository in connection with Apple Software. Certainly this is the whole problem. I want to uninstall iTunes using the ...

Paul Becker
Feb 12, 2015 at 7:59 am
Feb 13, 2015 at 10:27 pm

3	[salt-users] Exported Resources / Automatic monitoring?

Hi, has anyone implemented the automatic deployment of monitoring configuration using e.g. Nagios with saltstack? What I want to be able to do is deploy a system with services using salt and then ...

Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
Feb 4, 2015 at 3:56 am
Feb 12, 2015 at 11:56 am

3	[salt-users] Storing data in Pillars with python.

Hey there, I'd like to create a pillar file on my master with a python script, storing the output of a python command in the pillar. Any ideas on how to do that? -- You received this message because ...

Paul Jost
Feb 9, 2015 at 10:16 am
Feb 9, 2015 at 3:31 pm

3	[salt-users] Using python/ptdsl in winrepo sls files?

Hi, Sorry I'm new here. I have been looking through the documentation for the win repo and I search your group here and couldn't find the answer to my question so though I would start a post. From ...

Tim Brown
Feb 6, 2015 at 9:44 am
Feb 9, 2015 at 11:18 am

3	[salt-users] Is there a web interface for monitoring and managing salt?

Hi, I'm a compete salt n00b but I was wondering if there's a web interface for monitoring and managing salt. I manage a bunch of boxes but need to hand over the monitoring responsibility to a ...

Bryan Arenal
Feb 7, 2015 at 12:34 am
Feb 7, 2015 at 10:48 am

3	[salt-users] Python's 'startswith' in Jinja2/Flask

I'm looking for method/way which is similar to python's startswith. What I would like to do is link some fields in table which start with "i-". My steps: 1. I have created filter, which return ...

Paweł Jaworowsky
Feb 5, 2015 at 2:47 pm
Feb 5, 2015 at 3:46 pm

3	[salt-users] Meet error - { Jinja variable 'bool object' has no attribute 'lower' }

Hi friends, I start to use salt 2014.7.1 (Helium) to deploy kube on Ubuntu 14.04. There is a script: saltbase/salt/kube-addons/init.sls:{% if pillar.get('enable_cluster_monitoring', '').lower() == ...

Knight su
Feb 3, 2015 at 3:31 am
Feb 3, 2015 at 9:29 am

3	[salt-users] bootstrap ec2 vm from local system

I want to bootstrap a ec2 vm using salt-cloud, and install something using state files. Now i can create a ec2 vm using salt-cloud. but i cant ping that vm using salt from my local system. I ...

Thomas Alrin
Feb 2, 2015 at 11:52 am
Feb 2, 2015 at 1:54 pm

2	[salt-users] package installation on windows 7

when i used to install any package except vlc,npp i am getting this error every time ,is there any reason fot this this is errors.......... ajit@ubuntu-jenkins:/srv/salt/win/repo/Emet$ sudo salt ...

Rahul kumar Patel
Feb 13, 2015 at 2:33 pm
Mar 7, 2015 at 7:52 pm

2	[salt-users] Salt Sprint in Paris on 3rd of march 2015

Hi list, Seeing that there was a sprint organized at SaltConf this year and knowing that a bunch of French salt users could not make it the conference (and thus the sprint). Logilab has decided to ...

Arthur Lutz
Feb 19, 2015 at 2:00 pm
Mar 6, 2015 at 2:46 pm

2	[salt-users] Formula that lists applied formulas in /etc/motd of minion

Hi, I'm currently working on a formula that is supposed to list all applied formulas in the /etc/motd file on the minion. A test init.sls file looks like this: http_managed: file.accumulated: - ...

Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
Feb 28, 2015 at 4:14 am
Mar 3, 2015 at 7:12 am

2	[salt-users] Strange issue with custom grains and windows minions

I've got a strange issue with custom grains disappearing from windows minions (only windows). If I create a custom grain script and sync it out the grain is immediately available. However if I run a ...

Jason Steenblik
Feb 26, 2015 at 10:48 am
Mar 2, 2015 at 11:39 am

2	[salt-users] salt-cloud, states and executors: to sequence or to parallelize?

Ok, so the documentation regarding the cloud executor is clear: no parallel anything. Similarly, and obviously, the cloud state is only geared for sequential instance creation. Was this a ...

Stephen Spencer
Feb 26, 2015 at 10:47 pm
Mar 1, 2015 at 9:16 pm

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