salt-users@googlegroups.com discussions for May 2015

11	[salt-users] Calling salt from a different host (e.g., CI server) ?

In our CI system, I eventually want to update pillar/state information, push those changes to the Git server, then initiate a salt '...' state.highstate on a subset of minions. I've also enabled LDAP ...

Jeff
May 9, 2015 at 5:52 am
Jun 30, 2015 at 2:37 pm

11	[salt-users] Salt -minion solaris support

I am evaluating the salt and impressed by it simplicity and flexibility - prefer salt to puppet . However i am a bit concerned with the Minion Solaris support - looks like the development of the ...

Fengnan zhao
May 1, 2015 at 6:15 am
May 15, 2015 at 10:28 am

9	[salt-users] Default values and pillar data

Hi all, I'm playing with saltstack but I'm stuck in two questions. I'm trying to create a formula like the sysctl formula to my servers for testing; I want to use a defaults.yaml file where put all ...

David Seira
May 21, 2015 at 3:31 pm
Jun 18, 2015 at 4:30 pm

9	[salt-users] Salt-cp corrupting the file after transfer to minion

Hello all, I am evaluating salt for one of my projects and was testing the salt-cp to send a small exe file to one of the minions. Though the files sent was successful from master to minion but it ...

Ramakanta Sahoo
May 8, 2015 at 9:01 am
May 12, 2015 at 5:55 am

8	[salt-users] Salt 2015.5.1 Released

We are please to announce the 2015.5.1 release of Salt! The release notes can be found here: http://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2015.5.1.html The sources are available on PyPI ...

Colton Myers
May 28, 2015 at 4:17 pm
Jun 10, 2015 at 3:19 pm

8	[salt-users] Issues with compound targeting in 2015.5.0

Hello, We were encountering some strange issues with targeting either from the command line or using mine.get in our state files. From the command line the compound match seems to be ignored and ...

Tyler
May 16, 2015 at 4:53 pm
Jun 2, 2015 at 7:06 pm

8	[salt-users] Adding jpic/rsyncd-formula to saltstack-formulas/rsyncd-formula

Hi all, I created a formula for rsyncd: https://github.com/jpic/rsyncd-formula Is it possible to add it to the main org ? Thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google ...

James Pic
May 12, 2015 at 2:27 pm
May 28, 2015 at 7:52 am

8	[salt-users] Call a module from within a runner?

I have a module that I would like to call from a runner. When I try to call it as I would from a state or another module, it fails with a KeyError and it appears that custom modules are not available ...

Carolyn Van Slyck
May 6, 2015 at 10:55 pm
May 12, 2015 at 3:19 pm

7	[salt-users] Can I Target a specific revision of the highstate?

<disclaimer: I'm very new to Salt *Short description:* I need some perspective on how to implement a versioned minion state so that 'highstate' calls don't deploy new components until told explictly ...

Jeff
May 9, 2015 at 4:06 am
May 20, 2015 at 10:32 pm

7	[salt-users] Salt 2014.7.6 Released

We are please to announce the 2014.7.6 release of Salt! Please note that because 2015.5.0 has already been released, this release will not be officially packaged. However, it can be installed via ...

Colton Myers
May 18, 2015 at 10:45 pm
May 20, 2015 at 6:08 pm

7	[salt-users] Halite issue

I installed Halite per the instructions. I'm able to get to the site and log in but it either won't show any minions or it only shows one or two of the 60+ minions I have. My auth settings are ...

Jeff
May 2, 2015 at 5:24 am
May 5, 2015 at 9:46 pm

6	[salt-users] How can I find out what a salt-master proccess is doing with 110 %CPU and above 300:00.00 TIME ?

I opened top and found a salt-master which is running at 110% CPU since a long time (above 300:00.00 TIME) How do I find out what this proccess is doing? I assume this is related to the invalid cache ...

Markus Kramer
May 29, 2015 at 9:11 am
Jun 11, 2015 at 6:57 pm

6	[salt-users] "Last time seen" - when was the last contact between minion and master?

I think Minions regularly try to contact the master. I believe this is just "I am here" message, but I might be wrong. I think these are the messages I see in the output of `salt-master -l info` ...

Markus Kramer
May 21, 2015 at 11:25 am
Jun 11, 2015 at 6:55 pm

6	[salt-users] [WARNING ] Skipped invalid cache mtime entry in /var/cache/salt/master/roots/mtime_map

After weeks of continuously and successfully working, during the last three days, the salt-master increasingly ignored events that a minion sends him via event.send. In /var/log/salt/master we ...

Markus Kramer
May 28, 2015 at 8:15 pm
Jun 8, 2015 at 5:12 pm

6	[salt-users] Who uses vagrant with Windows guest and salt provider?

Hi all, I would like to hear if anyone is using this combination successfully. For me this never worked, because of breakages in both projects (more info here ...

Oliver Bestwalter
May 18, 2015 at 2:08 pm
May 21, 2015 at 6:58 am

6	[salt-users] Salt Using Active Directory Auth

I am very new to SaltStack, and I have been tasked with trying to setup AD authentication to our Salt master server, but have been running into trouble. From what I have read this should work, but ...

Blake Ferkingstad
May 14, 2015 at 6:02 pm
May 15, 2015 at 5:15 pm

5	[salt-users] Augeas and onchanges issues with Salt 2015.5.0 on Ubuntu 14.04

I'm using salt-minion 2015.5.0+ds-1trusty1 on Ubuntu 14.04, and running into issues with this state: /etc/ssh/sshd_config: augeas.change: - context: /files/etc/ssh/sshd_config - changes: - set ...

Kartik Subbarao
May 16, 2015 at 4:13 pm
May 27, 2015 at 11:02 pm

5	[salt-users] Understanding state file structure

Hi folks, been using Salt for about a year; new to this group. I'm trying to understand why this isn't a valid state: run-somescript-with-files: *file.managed:* - source: salt://thingone - name ...

Grant Patterson
May 14, 2015 at 9:47 pm
May 27, 2015 at 7:59 pm

5	[salt-users] Can I change the format of cmd.script output?

Can I change the output format of cmd.script from test.server: ---------- pid: 26800 retcode: 0 stderr: stdout: script output line1 script output line2 to something sortable like test.server:script ...

Peeter U
May 3, 2015 at 7:08 pm
May 26, 2015 at 11:01 pm

5	[salt-users] How to safely and securely separate dev and prod environments?

Hi all, I've a Salt master that manages two groups of minons: production servers and development servers. So I've set up two Salt environments: 'base' for the productions servers and 'dev' for the ...

Bb49152
May 1, 2015 at 10:39 am
May 25, 2015 at 9:33 pm

5	[salt-users] Salt Master available over the internet

How risky is salt over the internet ? Scenario is droplet in digital ocean as minion, Master behind firewall in our server rack. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google ...

Conrad Jones
May 13, 2015 at 7:53 pm
May 20, 2015 at 6:12 pm

5	[salt-users] Link to pdf not real

Hi!, I am learning little by little salt, and I just happened to find that http://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/, in the first link, the one to the PDF, doesn't link to anywhere I can see a PDF, I ...

Javier Domingo Cansino
May 6, 2015 at 10:23 pm
May 16, 2015 at 10:43 am

5	[salt-users] auto_accept: True doesn't seem to work

I am just getting deeper into salt and have had issues with minions reconnecting after I generated new master keys (on accident?) when playing with Halite. I changed: open_mode: True auto_accept ...

Jeff
May 4, 2015 at 9:56 pm
May 5, 2015 at 12:21 am

4	[salt-users] Firing event from a python script. How to debug?

We have a script that fire an event to do something: def fire_event(payload, tag): import salt.syspaths as syspaths import salt.config import salt.client caller = ...

Quan Tong Anh
May 19, 2015 at 7:40 am
Jun 12, 2015 at 3:51 am

4	[salt-users] Openstack + Heat + Salt(-cloud)

Hi , I currently reading docs on Heat and I have stumbled upon hooks for saltstack . http://git.cetic.be/openstack/heat-templates/commit/75d7a881b3b0eb526b762e8cc4a29388a13126cf My questions : Is ...

T10tennn
May 29, 2015 at 3:59 pm
Jun 11, 2015 at 7:27 pm

4	[salt-users] New to salt and looking for some guidance on best practices for workflows

I am pretty new to SaltStack, but so far I think it is pretty awesome/powerful stuff. The issue I have now is sort of tying everything together in a maintainable/well-structured way, so I am hoping ...

Brandon Kearns
May 30, 2015 at 5:59 pm
Jun 4, 2015 at 6:18 pm

4	[salt-users] cmd.run only executes first command on Windows

Hi, running 2015.5.0, a cmd.run state which should execute multiple commands only executes the first one on a Windows minion. Example: mycommand: cmd.run: - name: | first command second command third ...

Dirk Heinrichs
May 26, 2015 at 12:27 pm
Jun 4, 2015 at 5:41 pm

4	[salt-users] Making Environments for Pillar useful

Hi everyone, Executive Summary: Env in pillar are useless. How to change this? Since I wrote some stuff about templating down [0] I had some thoughts on structuring or, more precise, aggregating ...

Florian Ermisch
May 8, 2015 at 10:14 pm
Jun 3, 2015 at 5:23 am

4	[salt-users] long runtime for salt-call event.send foo/bar/baz '{}'

Running salt-call event.send foo/bar/baz '{}' works but is consistently taking 15 seconds. Is this expected? Seems like it should run quite a bit faster. -- You received this message because you are ...

Andrew Hammond
May 14, 2015 at 12:26 am
Jun 3, 2015 at 12:43 am

4	[salt-users] Disk partitioning management

Hi list! I've looking around for a simple way to administer disks with salt. As we are using AWS, I've created an instance with a provisioned volume, and I was wondering if there is some way to make ...

Martin Nitram
May 22, 2015 at 8:57 pm
Jun 1, 2015 at 12:03 am

4	[salt-users] gitfs and pillars with pygit2

Is there any way to use gitfs and ext_pillars with pygit2? I don't want to use GitPython because I need my git repo to be private. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the ...

Anna Berruezo
May 21, 2015 at 11:52 am
May 28, 2015 at 7:14 am

4	[salt-users] Salt API client library for Java

Hello Salt users, at SUSE we are working with Salt and one of the recent outcomes of that is a Java library that can be used to easily connect any Java program to SaltStack (via the API) ...

Johannes Renner
May 27, 2015 at 2:58 pm
May 28, 2015 at 1:13 am

4	[salt-users] salt.cp.get_file (silently) does nothing when transferring to a Windows minion

I have a zip file I'm trying to use the cp.get_file module for - it's binary, and salt-cp seems to do newline munging with causes problems. (the open issue ...

Tristan Juricek
May 14, 2015 at 5:56 pm
May 27, 2015 at 7:02 pm

4	[salt-users] Render Python State After Previous State Runs

Bear with me, as I am a relatively new Salt user. I have a sample init.sls which includes two states: include: - deploy.gitclone - deploy.modifyjson The intention is to clone a github repo with ...

Michael E
May 7, 2015 at 8:54 pm
May 22, 2015 at 7:54 pm

4	[salt-users] How do I specify two minions as tgt of salt.function?

I can target one minions echo_hello_world: salt.function: - tgt: client1 - name: cmd.run - arg: - | echo hello world I want to target two minions with the same command but all theses examples fail ...

Markus Kramer
May 12, 2015 at 8:11 pm
May 14, 2015 at 12:53 am

3	[salt-users] replace a word with fqdn

Hello, I am using ubuntu 12.04 and I want to replace a word in a file with my systems fqdn or hostname.Can it be possibe using grains or script will be better?If using grains then please give a ...

Sneha Haldar
May 29, 2015 at 5:14 am
Jun 19, 2015 at 8:00 am

3	[salt-users] Setting Windows HostName with Salt-Cloud

Hello, I was wondering if any of you as been using salt-cloud to deploy windows Virtual Machines and if so how could you set HostName because using cloud.profiles doesn't work. Are there any means to ...

Cedric Thesnieres
May 22, 2015 at 8:03 am
Jun 4, 2015 at 10:43 pm

3	[salt-users] Salt minion unable to process pkg.installed (CentOS 6)

I have an sls file that includes a whole bunch of pkg.installed entries. The file works on all other minions. I'm trying to add a new host and I am getting an error: The following package(s) were not ...

Brett Glasson
May 29, 2015 at 2:48 am
Jun 3, 2015 at 12:50 am

3	[salt-users] Generate report based on output

We use salt '*' pkg.version <pkg_name to list package version installed in all the minions And use salt '*' pkg.latest_version <pkg_name to list the latest version of package available for the ...

Bantu Banerji
May 31, 2015 at 7:32 am
Jun 1, 2015 at 4:23 am

3	[salt-users] Execution versus state modules and use cases

Are there any recommendations on when to use execution modules and when to use salt states? Is defining the advantages and disadvantages of each approach better outlined by single versus multiple ...

Trevor K
May 18, 2015 at 10:58 pm
May 28, 2015 at 8:13 pm

3	[salt-users] Environment question with ENC

Hi I know this question comes up a lot, but i’m trying to work out the best way to manage environments for dev/stage/prod and local I am using the split pillar environment method, with only one ...

Robert Gardam
May 15, 2015 at 9:29 am
May 20, 2015 at 10:10 pm

3	[salt-users] External Pillar that overwrites existing pillar data

Hi, I am writing a very simple external pillar in python. The reason is that I want to create a simple hierachy in a yaml file. application.sls ------------------ application: default: setting1: true ...

Robert Gardam
May 19, 2015 at 8:26 am
May 20, 2015 at 10:26 am

3	[salt-users] How to include only existing pillar files?

Hi, I'm trying to make my pillar data more generic and I would like to do automatically include a pillar file based on the minion's name; basically, something like: (pillar/top.sls) base: - ...

Jonathan Ballet
May 12, 2015 at 8:20 am
May 19, 2015 at 1:31 am

3	[salt-users] Best practices for unique ids in a config file

Hi, I have a set of hosts that need configuration files that are identical except for a unique id in each, similar to how in a mysql replication scenario each my.cnf each node requires a unique ...

Eric Brunson
May 6, 2015 at 4:17 pm
May 18, 2015 at 9:41 am

3	[salt-users] SALT Returner for Syslog not working

Hello Group. I wanted to now more about Returners that can be used with SALT. I am trying to run this command "salt '*' test.ping --return syslog" which ideally should write the output in ...

Amit Bhardwaj
May 6, 2015 at 7:20 am
May 13, 2015 at 5:22 am

3	[salt-users] How to do a Postgres "create tablespace" command?

I find in the documentation for salt.states.postgres_database.present that I can associate my new database with a tablespace. But I cannot find a way to define the tablespace. I need to perform ...

Vernon D. Cole
May 12, 2015 at 4:35 am
May 12, 2015 at 3:30 pm

3	[salt-users] Setting the hostname with salt-cloud

Hello fellow salt-users, I am just migrating from a set of old bash scripts to salt-cloud, and after facing some difficulties[1], I got it running. I successfully set up a VM to test stuff with, but ...

Alfredo Palhares
May 8, 2015 at 2:04 pm
May 8, 2015 at 4:02 pm

3	[salt-users] Ubuntu Vivid Packages Release?

Hey, Wondering if there is any ETA on getting the latest Ubuntu Vivid packages on the SaltStack PPA site?: http://ppa.launchpad.net/saltstack/salt/ubuntu/dists/ Cheers, Tehmasp Chaudhri -- You ...

Tehmasp Chaudhri
May 5, 2015 at 2:31 pm
May 8, 2015 at 3:46 am

3	[salt-users] Pillars structure in Git...

I'm trying to integrate GitFS to manage our states and pillars, but just as I think I've gotten a handle on how Salt uses Git and environments mapped to branches I find I've hit a mental brick wall ...

Jeff
May 7, 2015 at 8:27 pm
May 7, 2015 at 9:00 pm

3	[salt-users] salt at scale - lots of problems

Hello all, Here at our work - we use salt as a command and control (C&C) channel for our infrastructure. We don't use it much for configuration management. In the role of C&C ... we've had LOTS and ...

Shane Gibson
May 4, 2015 at 6:18 pm
May 5, 2015 at 4:18 pm

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