salt-users@googlegroups.com discussions for March 2016

14	[salt-users] Who has tried to use salt-stack, at least minion - on AIX?

I have packaged a newer python (v2.7.11, v3.4.4 and 3.5.1), and have a patch for python so that the client (minion) at least tries to start. I have seen that there is a package from salt that ...

Michael Felt
Mar 20, 2016 at 1:29 pm
Mar 23, 2016 at 11:47 pm

13	[salt-users] Need help in salt on AWS

Hi, I was trying to write the code to create the AWS infrastructure using salt. I am facing issue while creating ELB. My subnet already exist but its is failing with the error message: ---------- ...

Sanjiv
Mar 6, 2016 at 5:09 am
Mar 9, 2016 at 3:36 am

10	[salt-users] Setting pillar from states

I have a complex set of inter-dependent states across several sls files. They perform upgrades of a jail based on the target version of the jail as set in the pillar. However the code has an "onlyif" ...

Ari Maniatis
Mar 21, 2016 at 5:57 am
Mar 22, 2016 at 12:08 am

9	[salt-users] Need help in pillars in salt

Hi, I have created a pillar file infra.sls which contains the following error: zones: ['us-west-1a','us-west-1b'] In the state file I wanted to apply a loop but it is not working. This is the code ...

Sanjiv
Mar 6, 2016 at 5:11 am
Mar 8, 2016 at 4:41 am

7	[salt-users] High latency link minion hangs on "Re-using SAuth for ('/etc/salt/pki/minion',...."

I've been battling with this issue for a month now, reading and reading posts to maybe find some clues and finally I decided to ask for some help. Minions are connecting over the GSM link on which ...

Gordan Kralj
Mar 9, 2016 at 2:22 pm
Mar 29, 2016 at 9:43 pm

7	[salt-users] Empty output from mine.get when used in states and pillars

Hi, I am doing a proof of concept for a setup which will use Salt Mine. I have a salt-master and another machine in Vagrant. I have run into a weird issue with Salt Mine. I have setup mining of ...

Anders Bruun Olsen
Mar 21, 2016 at 3:15 pm
Mar 21, 2016 at 8:36 pm

7	[salt-users] silent installation of salt minion in windows

Hi friends, i need help in silent (unattended) installation of salt-minion in windows. i tried the following, but, still it is asking Y/N Salt-Minion-2015.8.7-AMD64-Setup.exe /S ...

Udhay prakash pethakamsetty
Mar 3, 2016 at 9:24 am
Mar 16, 2016 at 6:15 pm

6	[salt-users] Memory Leak

Hi, I have a salt based application, where we use ext_pillars. The salt-master slowly consumes all system memory I have reduced my code to the bare minimum, but still seeing memory consumed I am ...

Meir Hazon
Mar 20, 2016 at 3:12 pm
Mar 28, 2016 at 12:30 pm

6	[salt-users] HELP: How can I change shared (included) state behavior using Jinja variables?

*QUESTION:* How do I change the behavior of a shared, included state based on the including state ? *Details:* Given the following, I need state 'tomcat.deploy_single' to use a different value for ...

Jeff
Mar 3, 2016 at 12:58 am
Mar 4, 2016 at 4:09 pm

5	[salt-users] Salt Master in Vagrant VM, Salt Minion in Windows Server EC2 instance

Hi, I have installed salt master in vagrant vm in my pc and salt minion in windows server r2 of AWS instance. Salt minion is failing to authenticate master. My local pc ip is private and hence remote ...

Anantha Shankar
Mar 30, 2016 at 6:18 am
Mar 31, 2016 at 12:14 am

5	[salt-users] First Salt Formula Need a little help

I wrote my first formula and I need a little help resolving an issue. The details are in the first issue <https://github.com/oznah/slurm-formula/issues/1 which I opened. Basically the inheritance in ...

Hugh Crissman
Mar 24, 2016 at 9:17 pm
Mar 30, 2016 at 5:28 pm

5	[salt-users] Salt 2015.8.8 Released - Security Advisory

We are pleased to announce the 2015.8.8 release of Salt! The release notes can be found here: https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2015.8.8.html The sources are available on PyPI ...

Meggie Woodfield
Mar 23, 2016 at 11:16 pm
Mar 29, 2016 at 6:48 pm

5	[salt-users] Is it possible to merge dicts in a jinja map file?

Hi, I have been working on consolidating some salt formulas I found for chrony and ntp into a single time-services state/formula. I have run into a couple of general gotchas that I seem to have ...

BKeep
Mar 19, 2016 at 6:02 am
Mar 20, 2016 at 9:56 pm

5	[salt-users] Enabling repos when using state.pkg.installed for just that operation

I've been looking at the state.pkg.installed docs and I can't see a way to enable a repo just for that state execution in the way you would with "yum --enablerepo=foo install bar" and without it ...

John Hicks
Mar 2, 2016 at 12:29 pm
Mar 9, 2016 at 6:13 pm

4	[salt-users] Windows software repository issue: unable to fetch package list

Hi, I am a student learning Salt stack for first time and I need help. I have installed Master on Ubuntu AWS instance and minion on Windows 2012 server AWS instance. I have successfully connect both ...

Smeet Kothari
Mar 31, 2016 at 4:38 am
Apr 1, 2016 at 1:54 pm

4	[salt-users] Aggregate data over states

Hello all, I would like to discuss the best way to set some data in states, and then aggregate them in another one. Suppose I have two states (state1.sls and state2.sls) that both deploy applications ...

Calvinh34
Mar 15, 2016 at 10:09 am
Apr 1, 2016 at 12:19 pm

4	[salt-users] Salt-Cloud Inventory Management

Hi All, Wondering what the equivalent inventory gathering method is for Salt with cloud providers? I've been using Salt for sometime and don't think I've come across an option for this. Coming from ...

Jay Ambi
Mar 8, 2016 at 4:50 am
Mar 31, 2016 at 10:19 am

4	[salt-users] "No Top file" with git

Hi all, I really like the idea behind salt but every time I give it a try it gets ludicrous fast: /etc/salt/master.d/10_server.conf On the minion, doing "salt-call -l trace --local state.highstate" I ...

Dimitri Maziuk
Mar 25, 2016 at 11:42 pm
Mar 26, 2016 at 8:11 pm

4	[salt-users] Compiling salt to live in another folder (not c:\salt)

Hi Not sure if this should go into this forum, but couldnt think of where to ask this question. i would like to compile the windows salt, but for it to go into another folder (not c:\salt). i have ...

Paul A
Mar 23, 2016 at 8:35 am
Mar 25, 2016 at 6:48 am

4	[salt-users] Masterless config still tries to contact master?

I'm using Terraform to bootstrap Salt (masterless) on an Ubuntu machine on AWS. My Salt bootstrap script, invoked from Terraform: wget -O install_salt.sh https://bootstrap.saltstack.com sh ...

Joe Olson
Mar 15, 2016 at 6:09 pm
Mar 16, 2016 at 8:04 pm

4	[salt-users] Error with salt-master service

Hi It´s me again. I have two problems, and I´ve been dig in without success :(. One of them is: This is my second environment to test, and every time I restart salt-master service, it start without ...

Ronna Mijares
Mar 7, 2016 at 9:34 pm
Mar 14, 2016 at 9:52 pm

3	[salt-users] Salt looking in wrong environment for files

I'm having trouble with updating ssh public keys with from a non-default environment. Salt can't find the id_rsa.pub file that I specify. In the debug log it shows that it is searching in the base ...

Tcouto
Mar 31, 2016 at 11:20 pm
Apr 1, 2016 at 4:18 am

3	[salt-users] getting interface name from ip

Hi, I'm looking for the opposite of salt.modules.network.interface. Something that, given an ip address, returns the interface name where that ip is set (or None, of course). Is there a "standard" ...

Andrei-Florian Staicu
Mar 31, 2016 at 1:48 pm
Mar 31, 2016 at 8:02 pm

3	[salt-users] Installing Salt minion in Windows and connecting to master installed in local on Mac

I have installed master in my mac and created a Windows 2012 R2 server instance where I have installed a Minion and trying to connect minion to master. I have edited the minion file in conf directory ...

Dhawal
Mar 29, 2016 at 8:34 pm
Mar 29, 2016 at 9:11 pm

3	[salt-users] Pillar and environment. Why return the strong value

Hi and in advance, sorry for my english ... I have a problem with pillars and environments. I researched a solution on previous post, but i don't find an explaination :/ I have one minion with an ...

Nicolas REY
Mar 21, 2016 at 10:42 am
Mar 25, 2016 at 6:21 pm

3	[salt-users] top.sls question, turing off a state for one role

Hi, I want to not have the package in base run for one role, will the below work? base: '*': - iptables [trimmed] G@roles:db_slave: - match: compound - iptables.disabled - db_slave_iptables [trimmed] ...

Marc Spitzer
Mar 20, 2016 at 9:48 pm
Mar 22, 2016 at 12:30 am

3	[salt-users] Memory consumption when using debug mode

Hello, We have noticed that when running the master in debug mode the memory consumption grows. After a short review we noticed that debug log files are kept in the memory. How can we free this ...

Meir Hazon
Mar 9, 2016 at 1:32 pm
Mar 20, 2016 at 3:11 pm

3	[salt-users] Multi-master with failover: Do I need signing?

I have a test environment, where I've set up multimaster, things were working pretty will with both masters active at the same time. I want to move to failover mode to prevent the double returns ...

John Hazen
Mar 15, 2016 at 8:55 pm
Mar 16, 2016 at 5:07 pm

3	[salt-users] unable to registrate an ipv6 only minion

Hi I'm unable to get a minion talking to a master with ipv6. The minion has only the ipv6 stack (means no ipv4 address !) In this setup I do have: guignol is the master ...

Cédric BRINER
Mar 15, 2016 at 3:30 pm
Mar 16, 2016 at 2:54 pm

3	[salt-users] Parallel execution in the highstate?

Let's say I have a highstate that basically deploy and configure 10 aws instances, in exactly the same way. Looks like state executions are in serial order. Is there anyway to do executions in ...

Sfresher
Mar 14, 2016 at 11:00 pm
Mar 15, 2016 at 2:22 pm

3	[salt-users] Another way to test formulas

Hello, everyone! I've been tinkering with Vagrant, and Testinfra <https://github.com/philpep/testinfra , trying to come up with a convenient way to test formulas states. Everybody knows about Vagrant ...

Andrew Pashkin
Mar 9, 2016 at 9:26 pm
Mar 14, 2016 at 1:36 pm

3	[salt-users] need help in salt pillars

Hi, I have the following directory structure and pillar files: /apps/salt/pillars top.sls infra.sls dev.sls dev.sls environment: dev infra.sls include: - dev.sls vpc_name ...

Sanjiv
Mar 8, 2016 at 11:37 am
Mar 8, 2016 at 8:43 pm

2	[salt-users] Updating Salt Master code on servers

I was wondering if there was a standard practice for updating the Salt master salt/pillar code on the master. This may not be as big of an issue when there is a small number of minions or the code ...

Matt
Mar 25, 2016 at 6:58 pm
Apr 1, 2016 at 3:22 pm

2	[salt-users] How to get current timestamp in Salt Pillars/States ?

Dear all, I'm looking for an opportunity to use current timestamp in my *.sls files. I didn't managed to find this function neither in SaltStack execution modules, nor in Jinja docs. This will not ...

Vitaly Isaev
Mar 11, 2016 at 5:15 pm
Apr 1, 2016 at 2:56 pm

2	[salt-users] update to 2015.8.8 salt-ssh pillar.get master:id stop working

Hi, after update to salt-ssh-2015.8.8, some functions stop to work as expected. For example, now 'pillar.get master:id' returns an empty output. salt-ssh remotesrv.com pillar.get 'master:id' Or maybe ...

Sergey Kandyla
Mar 27, 2016 at 6:48 am
Mar 30, 2016 at 8:42 pm

2	[salt-users] Altering Unix Linebased Config Files

I asked this question some weeks ago, and got no answer which made me happy: http://serverfault.com/questions/750984/set-value-in-etc-zypp-zypp-conf-via-salt Question: Set value in ...

Thomas Güttler
Mar 29, 2016 at 10:15 pm
Mar 30, 2016 at 5:45 am

2	[salt-users] git_pillar usage / configuration question

Hi all, Soooo, currently gitfs (for the salt tree) can automatically resolve "unknown" environment requests to git branches on-the-fly. For the life of me I cannot find a way to do the same for ...

Thomas Williams
Mar 29, 2016 at 5:31 pm
Mar 30, 2016 at 5:26 am

2	[salt-users] on redhat 7u2, salt-call has python issue

when running salt-call. there is an issue: stderr: Could not find platform independent libraries Could not find platform dependent libraries Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to [:] ImportError: No module ...

Robert Chen
Mar 24, 2016 at 7:34 am
Mar 29, 2016 at 10:37 pm

2	[salt-users] In which release do the newly added features appear?

Hello, Recently I merged a modified junos execution module and a junos state module. These were merged in the develop branch, I would like to know in which release will these features be available ...

Rajvi Dhimar
Mar 24, 2016 at 11:22 am
Mar 29, 2016 at 10:30 am

2	[salt-users] Unable to run custom state module

down votefavorite <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33327503/saltstack-unable-to-run-custom-state-modules# i've recently started using Salt for some automation in our lab. I've been trying to test ...

Sfresher
Mar 16, 2016 at 6:46 pm
Mar 21, 2016 at 11:50 pm

2	[salt-users] unable to run powershell script on salt minion from salt master

hi i am new to salt and want to learn more about salt features as i was trying to execute some commands it is working but while i try the below powershell command iam getting error while i try the ...

Javeed ali
Mar 18, 2016 at 5:20 am
Mar 18, 2016 at 4:50 pm

2	[salt-users] vagrant salt example for windows server

Hi, Does anyone have a vagrant file that bootstraps salt for a windows server? All the examples I find are for linux and I can't seem to find one that works with a windows box. Please assist if you ...

Daniel Sidman
Mar 16, 2016 at 8:23 pm
Mar 16, 2016 at 8:52 pm

2	[salt-users] performance impact of jinja comments

Hi, I'm planning to add jinja comments to every state I have (currently 128+). These shall describe the states like doc block in programming language describe functions and classes. Thus it'll ...

Andreas Ulm
Mar 14, 2016 at 11:01 pm
Mar 15, 2016 at 8:12 am

2	[salt-users] salt-cloud launch aws ec2 instances without predefined profile?

Is anyway we can launch aws ec2 instances without predefined profile, and preferably I can specify those as parameters? e.g. "salt-cloud instance1 -a subnet=subnetid,securitygroup=securitygroupid" -- ...

Sfresher
Mar 14, 2016 at 9:18 pm
Mar 14, 2016 at 10:41 pm

2	[salt-users] Ganglia formula iterating through interfaces

Hi, I am trying to set a ganglia formula. I set some roles grains to loop over on, and then, define the template to apply on each minion. I would like to the same for interfaces, to check if there ...

Rémy Dernat
Mar 11, 2016 at 1:28 pm
Mar 14, 2016 at 9:27 pm

2	[salt-users] Updating Multiple Apache Virtual Hosts Using the Apache State

Hi I'm trying to figure out how to append to an apache config using the *salt.states.apache *state, more specifically *apache.configfile* ...

Leonard Hu
Mar 11, 2016 at 10:01 pm
Mar 11, 2016 at 10:18 pm

2	[salt-users] salt/top.sls matching on pillar set to any value?

Hi! I'm setting a pillar for some minions, like this: consul-template: templates: foo: bar In my top.sls, I'd like to add the state if the top-level pillar is set to any value - is this possible? I ...

Carl Pettersson (BN)
Mar 9, 2016 at 4:59 pm
Mar 11, 2016 at 12:54 pm

2	[salt-users] Free SaltStack Course (6 lessons so far)

Hello everyone! I've been working on a SaltStack video course, and currently have six lessons up: - Introduction to Salt <https://www.devopslibrary.com/lessons/saltstack-beginner-tutorial - Adding a ...

Ken Erwin
Mar 10, 2016 at 2:47 pm
Mar 10, 2016 at 5:50 pm

2	[salt-users] Beacon doesn't emit

I’ve set up a disk usage beacon in my pillars and I’m wondering why it doesn’t work. I can see this in the salt-master log: 2016-03-09 11:54:56,392 [salt.template ][DEBUG ][750] Rendered data from ...

Fredrik Averpil
Mar 9, 2016 at 12:04 pm
Mar 10, 2016 at 7:59 am

2	[salt-users] Pillar refresh enters endless loop in salt proxy.

Hello, I am working on junos proxy. When I try to refresh the pillar data using saltutil.refresh_pillar, the proxy minion enters into an endless loop. Due to this I am not able to execute the state ...

Rajvi Dhimar
Mar 9, 2016 at 11:46 am
Mar 10, 2016 at 4:48 am

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