salt-users@googlegroups.com discussions for September 2015

34	[salt-users] Turning a template into one that iterates

Short version: I'm trying to extend the vsftpd formula to add a template that loops over a series of users. I'm close, but I don't know how to do the looping part. Longer ...

Michael Jinks
Sep 25, 2015 at 7:19 am
Sep 29, 2015 at 10:01 pm

22	[salt-users] Salt 2015.8.0 Released

We are pleased to announce the 2015.8.0 release of Salt! The release notes can be found here: http://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2015.8.0.html Note that we are now providing package ...

Colton Myers
Sep 14, 2015 at 10:39 pm
Sep 28, 2015 at 5:07 pm

11	[salt-users] Copy files from filesystem to minion

Hello, I need describe salt-cp in the state. Is it possible? And could someone give me example of this? Looking for something similar to this: copy-file: cp: - src: /home/ubuntu/test.py <- from ...

Dmitriy Slupytskyi
Sep 28, 2015 at 8:42 pm
Sep 30, 2015 at 6:40 am

10	[salt-users] salt minion running on QNAP

Hi All I was wondering if anyone has managed to get the salt-minion running on the QNAP OS? I would love to mange my qnap with salt and before i go down the proxy route thought i would check first ...

Adam Barnett
Sep 29, 2015 at 9:25 pm
Oct 1, 2015 at 5:03 pm

7	[salt-users] salt-ssh and file.accumulated

Hi, I am trying the following example of accumulator with *salt-ssh ( version: 2015.5.0) : * sample-blockreplace: file.blockreplace: - name: /path/myfile.txt - marker_start: "#-- start managed zone ...

Mohammad Shamsi
Sep 11, 2015 at 10:22 am
Sep 21, 2015 at 11:32 pm

6	[salt-users] Problem winrepo

I would use this simple example : https://github.com/saltstack/salt-winrepo-ng/blob/master/vlc.sls -------- # both 32-bit (x86) AND a 64-bit (AMD64) installer available {% set PROGRAM_FILES = ...

Jacky Fromont
Sep 15, 2015 at 4:08 pm
Oct 20, 2015 at 1:07 am

6	[salt-users] Can not provision google cloud instances with "No external IP" profile setting using latest version of Salt

The latest update to Salt: 2015.5.3 seems to have broken some profile settings used with google cloud. Specifically, "external_ip" does not allow the "None" option anymore and our clusters require ...

Frederick
Sep 28, 2015 at 5:40 pm
Oct 1, 2015 at 10:10 pm

6	[salt-users] Weird behavior of: salt minion_name pillar.get

Hello, What would cause this behavior: pillar get some_key, finds nothing: ➜ ~ salt "aaa-dev*" *pillar.get *dot_a_accounts aaa-dev-1.uis.georgetown.edu: ➜ ~ pillar.items shows that key exists: ➜ ~ ...

Mohamed Lrhazi
Sep 18, 2015 at 4:29 pm
Sep 29, 2015 at 4:18 pm

6	[salt-users] 2015.8.0 winrepo problems

Hey after updating to 2015.8.0 does anyone else have the problem where the win repo does not work at all? I generate the repo on the master and run pkg.refresh_db on the windows minions but they ...

Kyle Peterson
Sep 16, 2015 at 7:56 pm
Sep 24, 2015 at 5:09 pm

6	[salt-users] Salt packaging

Hello, What do you think about doing a self contained package with all its dependencies as Datadog did: https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/new-datadog-agent-omnibus-ticket-dependency-hell/ best, -- You ...

Sebastien Estienne
Sep 7, 2015 at 6:56 pm
Sep 17, 2015 at 10:26 pm

6	[salt-users] Update Pillar Data from REST API

Hi, Is there a way to update pillar data via the rest api? We have external systems that we want to push some config data into the pillar - for states to then pick up on. I can't see this as possible ...

Kevin Tomlinson
Sep 8, 2015 at 2:59 pm
Sep 10, 2015 at 5:22 pm

5	[salt-users] salt-ssh rosters

Hi folks, Trying to see if ssh minions are an option for IoT... Is there a limit on how many entries a roster can/should be able to handle? If not, is there a timeout or some sort of paging for ...

Eugene Tolmachev
Sep 21, 2015 at 9:32 pm
Dec 8, 2015 at 9:03 pm

5	[salt-users] Latency problem with 2015.8.0 on Debian8.2

Hi, (Sorry for my english from school ..) I use salt on Virtuals Machines on Debian 8.2. I have installed Salt 2015.8.0 from Saltstack's debian repo. I have 16 minions and 1 master (who is a minion ...

Valentin Ouvrard
Sep 30, 2015 at 11:33 pm
Oct 16, 2015 at 12:00 am

5	[salt-users] Only run pkg.upgrade if there are new packages to install

When running highstate, I want to make sure that all packages are fully upgraded / uptodate. I've tried both: update-packages: pkg.uptodate: - refresh: True and: pkg.upgrade: module.run: - refresh ...

Scott Leibrand
Sep 22, 2015 at 7:15 pm
Sep 25, 2015 at 6:06 pm

5	[salt-users] Salt Foreman and Syndic

I'm curious to know if anyone knows how to get the master_tops system to use pass the foreman enc top files from a master to a syndic. I have salt and foreman working very well together with few to ...

Charles Burton
Sep 2, 2015 at 3:24 pm
Sep 3, 2015 at 1:28 pm

4	[salt-users] Salt testbed, possible duplicate?

Hello all, Earlier this year, we migrated all of our configuration / orchestration over to saltstack (and we're very pleased!). One of the challenges we faced when migrating the services in our ...

Terence Kent
Sep 22, 2015 at 2:24 am
Oct 20, 2015 at 10:37 am

4	[salt-users] If the order masters can use the rest_tornado?

I configured the order masters and tornado api ,but using an error [tornado.application][ERROR ][24274] Future exception was never retrieved: TimeoutException Use no problem on the master,Just use an ...

梦龙周
Sep 29, 2015 at 3:37 pm
Oct 8, 2015 at 8:24 pm

4	[salt-users] states.sysctl with a comment

All, Is it possible to add a comment for one or multiple states.sysctl states? I am currently using a blockreplace but like to see any easier solutions. Thank you. Jim. -- You received this message ...

Jim M.
Sep 28, 2015 at 6:18 pm
Oct 6, 2015 at 8:04 pm

4	[salt-users] Basic HA config on RHEL7, does anyone have this working?

I setup a pair of 2015.8.0 salt masters on RHEL7 and a third, 2015.8.0 salt minion on RHEL7. Very basic setup. Bare bones to be exact: Masters set with: file_roots: base: - /srv/salt/states/base ...

Russ Blaisdell
Sep 21, 2015 at 3:49 pm
Sep 28, 2015 at 5:04 pm

4	[salt-users] file.replace with asterisk in the repl field

Hi. I am looking to add a line to /etc/security/limits.conf in a Linux server but see an issue. add soft lock test: file.replace: - name: /etc/security/limits.conf - pattern ...

Jim M.
Sep 23, 2015 at 6:23 pm
Sep 24, 2015 at 12:20 am

4	[salt-users] Where should default variable logic go?

Hi all, I'm trying to "standardize" things, and getting all defaults into one defaults.yaml file, then map it in map.jinja and merge with the pillar data {%- from "test/defaults.yaml" import ...

Andrei Staicu
Sep 19, 2015 at 4:41 pm
Sep 19, 2015 at 8:36 pm

4	[salt-users] Reactor/Jinja: Alert on failed highstates

We are using Autoscaling Instance Groups on Google Compute Engine, and the minions run an automatic highstate on creation. I want an alert (using pagerduty) if the highstate run in unsuccessful. I ...

Nicholas Capo
Sep 16, 2015 at 6:16 pm
Sep 18, 2015 at 7:22 pm

4	[salt-users] Ubuntu package 2015.5.5?

Hi, Any information when new version (2015.5.5) will be available in repositories for ubuntu (launchpad ppa)? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Salt-users" ...

Love Nyberg
Sep 8, 2015 at 3:46 pm
Sep 17, 2015 at 11:44 pm

4	[salt-users] Can a pillar id be simply a number?

I have a pillar that looks something like this: envs: - prod: - bhp_endpoint_url: 'https://something_bhp.com/xml/service' - bhp_auth_type: 'basic' - rails_env: 'production' - 1: - service-locator ...

Patrick
Sep 2, 2015 at 7:47 pm
Sep 16, 2015 at 9:05 pm

4	[salt-users] Minion is down on the master, but is still running.

I am having an odd issue with salt. I have 7 minions that just stop responding on the master side somewhere around 24 hours after a restart. I cannot pinpoint when they stop working as I see nothing ...

SecureShell
Sep 4, 2015 at 7:23 pm
Sep 14, 2015 at 7:07 pm

4	[salt-users] salt minion join keeps old keys inspite of modified minion id

Hi, We are performing an automated install of salt minions on our nodes and we have a few grain/pillar setup go along with it. Additionally, we are over-riding the *default salt minion_id* which is ...

Jerry George
Sep 11, 2015 at 3:43 am
Sep 11, 2015 at 8:45 pm

3	[salt-users] ability to call pillar name based on variable value

Hi all , I am new with slat. So here is my question: for example to manage dsh groups I want to do something like: ### my pillar.sls ### groups: group1: - server1 - server2 group2: - server3 - ...

Vahagn Zakaryan
Sep 11, 2015 at 6:50 pm
Oct 2, 2015 at 6:47 pm

3	[salt-users] Upgrading master/minions across many versions

I'm interested in ideas on how to *successfully* upgrade from a quite old version, 0.17.x to 2015.5 or 2015.8. I have about 100 minions to update, and would prefer not have to visit each minion on my ...

Ethan Erchinger
Sep 29, 2015 at 6:38 pm
Oct 1, 2015 at 10:18 pm

3	[salt-users] boto_route53.present region

This is a comment/question about how the boto_route53.present state works. Apologies if I've missed something fundamental. I want to run a state like this to create a Route53 record for my EC2 ...

Joe Niland
Sep 28, 2015 at 12:38 am
Oct 1, 2015 at 7:42 am

3	[salt-users] SaltStack is not copying a directory with subdirectories and files

Hi there! I am new to SaltStack and either I am asking a stupid question or was searching for the wrong things. In my "LAB" down in the cellar, I have 12 Servers of different size and hardware, but ...

Thorsten Michels
Sep 25, 2015 at 9:38 am
Sep 25, 2015 at 4:49 pm

3	[salt-users] Configuring service on one host and creating database on diffent host with "shared" credentials

Hi all, I wanted to ask you folks if there is some best practice for this. Since with my current know-how of Salt I'm not sure how to acomplish this. I install and configure a service on one host ...

$Markus \"Shorty\" Uckelmann$

Markus \"Shorty\" Uckelmann
Sep 11, 2015 at 7:21 pm
Sep 23, 2015 at 7:25 pm

3	[salt-users] Mysql module, use credentials from pillar

Hello, I'd like to know if it's possible to store the mysql module credentials in a pillar, so far I have not found a way to do so. mysql: user: saltminion pass: '...' host: localhost etc.. (more ...

Saltycdr
Sep 23, 2015 at 12:37 pm
Sep 23, 2015 at 5:11 pm

3	[salt-users] populate /etc/hosts with other minion's grain data

I am provisioning in AWS with salt-cloud. I have a reactor which runs highstate at the firing of the create event, taking care of some basics, including the editing of /etc/hosts (template), using ...

Macinrack
Sep 18, 2015 at 1:31 pm
Sep 18, 2015 at 1:54 pm

3	[salt-users] webhook api load POST data

I am still learning salt-stack, and not done much python ... so struggling a bit with parsing data. I need to call the salt api with some structrured json data... but the json is not parsable by ...

Voxbitdev
Sep 7, 2015 at 9:26 am
Sep 9, 2015 at 7:05 am

3	[salt-users] Problem with release candidate v2015.8.0rc4 and docker?

Hi, I installed the latest release candidate v2015.8.0rc4 to play with docker (seems much easier!) but get a failure when I attempt to get a container running. "Failed to create new container ...

Ross Black
Sep 8, 2015 at 4:54 am
Sep 9, 2015 at 12:05 am

3	[salt-users] Unless jinja

Hi! The requisites all seem to require a command. Is there some way to use a jinja bool instead? Something like Foo: Some-module: - unless: {{ myVar }} I guess I could wrap it to become something ...

Carl Pettersson (BN)
Sep 7, 2015 at 5:36 pm
Sep 8, 2015 at 11:57 am

3	[salt-users] wait for process startup

Hi, I am trying to get my application deployment to fail if the application does not start accepting http requests on a specific port within a reasonable time. What is the best way when starting a ...

Ross Black
Sep 7, 2015 at 1:41 pm
Sep 8, 2015 at 7:07 am

2	[salt-users] Listing the existing network state

Hi, Based on https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/states/all/salt.states.network.html Is there a possibility to list the current state of a minion? This would be really useful to create a custom ...

Jerry George
Sep 11, 2015 at 10:56 pm
Oct 27, 2015 at 1:28 pm

2	[salt-users] Mine Function Documentation

I'm a little confused as to what are the possible functions I can use with the mine module. For example in the docs I see stuff like salt '*' mine.get network.interfaces Where are the docs on things ...

Tom Burdick
Sep 30, 2015 at 3:16 pm
Oct 15, 2015 at 10:48 pm

2	[salt-users] Getting a augeas.change exception error on centos6.6 (Lithium 2015.5.5)

Just curious - I am seeing a augeas.change compilation error on centos6.6 on Lithium 2015.5.5 (both master and minion), but am not seeing it on other OS's. Just curious if anyone else is seeing it? ...

Sandy
Sep 16, 2015 at 6:48 pm
Oct 3, 2015 at 7:58 am

2	[salt-users] nacl module documentation

It appears there is an error in the nacl module docs (https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/modules/all/salt.modules.nacl.html). The example config for the master looks like this: nacl.config ...

Jmcook1
Sep 28, 2015 at 4:02 pm
Oct 1, 2015 at 8:47 pm

2	[salt-users] Salt minion on OSX : best-practise ?

Hello, After migrated all our servers from Puppet to Salt, it's time to migrate end user to Salt as well. The newly version is perfect for Windows. But what about OSX ? We need to manage local users, ...

Anthony Martinet
Sep 29, 2015 at 11:03 am
Sep 29, 2015 at 9:31 pm

2	[salt-users] Accessing state attributes from another state (or template)

Sorry if this is a rather basic question, but I'm having difficult in coming up with the right answer. Is it possible to access the configuration of a state from within a jinja template for another ...

Pete Erickson
Sep 19, 2015 at 1:48 pm
Sep 29, 2015 at 4:35 pm

2	[salt-users] X509 sample from documentation gives error

Hi, I've copied the example from https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/states/all/salt.states.x509.html like so: /etc/pki/mvca3.key: x509.private_key_managed: - bits: 4096 - backup: True ...

Ralph van Etten
Sep 21, 2015 at 6:21 pm
Sep 28, 2015 at 5:04 pm

2	[salt-users] Salt-master older rpms (2014..)

Hi, Anybody know where to find older rpms of salt-master? I need it for calamari - something like 2014.1.11.. Thank you in advance :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the ...

Marius Vaitiekunas
Sep 28, 2015 at 8:54 am
Sep 28, 2015 at 2:08 pm

2	[salt-users] Unicode Decode error

Hi, Anybody experience this errro? web: ---------- ID: files Function: file.recurse Name: d:\samplefolder Result: False Comment: An exception occurred in this state: Traceback (most recent call ...

Mike A
Sep 21, 2015 at 7:44 am
Sep 24, 2015 at 4:39 pm

2	[salt-users] test post

just checking to see if my previous post was blocked do to spam filter or if Google ate my message -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Salt-users" group. To ...

BKeep
Sep 21, 2015 at 12:16 am
Sep 24, 2015 at 4:37 pm

2	[salt-users] Sorting dict in jinja

I imagine many people have a template file in jinja that looks a bit like this: {% for id, site in salt['pillar.get']('haproxy:sites').items() %} Now I'm finding that changes to the pillar will ...

Ari Maniatis
Sep 24, 2015 at 4:19 am
Sep 24, 2015 at 8:22 am

2	[salt-users] How to continue saltformula execution when node got reboot

Hi Folks, I have a use case, like there is a sequence of salt formula execution, during execution the node is getting restarted due to kernel update(expected behaviour). Now i need to continue ...

SRINIVASAN ND
Sep 19, 2015 at 9:39 am
Sep 22, 2015 at 1:57 am

2	[salt-users] Control structures not behaving as expected within state files for grain data

Hi, So let me try this again. I am still learning SaltStack so this may be something I am doing wrong or my not completely understanding the way things are supposed to work. I have setup a roles ...

BKeep
Sep 21, 2015 at 1:17 am
Sep 22, 2015 at 1:39 am

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