I have two ssh keys that I’m trying to deploy to one of my minions. But I can’t seem to get it to deploy. It errors out. Here is the init.sls in pillars: /xxx/yyy/zzz/id_rsa: file.managed: – source: salt://private/id_rsa /xxx/yyy/zz/id_rsa.pub: file.managed: – source: salt://private/id_rsa.pub Here is my init.sls state: ssh: file.managed: – name: {{ pillar[‘private’] }} … Read more
I’m starting a new project and considering using Ansible or Salt for deployment automation and, perhaps, more sophisticated orchestration (server management and federation). With Salt I’m wondering if there’s any integration between it and Graphite or Zenoss or Ganglia … using the Salt 0mq connections to relay the data from the Salt “minions” to the … Read more
How do I clear a directory on a salt-minion using a state file? I want to delete all *.conf files in /etc/supervisord/conf.d/ before I set up other supervisor services. The following top.sls configuration has no effect: /etc/supervisor/conf.d/*: file.absent file.remove fails as being unavailable. Answer Had same issue as you. That’s what worked for me. remove-supervisord-confd: … Read more
I fail to call a single state of an sls file. Whole sls file works This works: salt-ssh w123 state.sls monitoring This works: salt-ssh w123 state.show_sls monitoring One item of above output: monitoring_packages: ———- __env__: base __sls__: monitoring.packages pkg: |_ ———- pkgs: – python-psutil – installed |_ ———- order: 10000 What I tried Now I … Read more
At my current workplace, I look after two VMware host machines, an OpenBSD physical machine, three Debian VM’s, and six Windows Server VM’s (2008/2012). I’m considering implementing a configuration management tool such as Puppet or Chef. Is this reasonable, or will the overhead of learning the tool outweigh the benefits? Where is the tipping point … Read more
The more established configuration management (CM) systems like Puppet and Chef use a pull-based approach: clients poll a centralized master periodically for updates. Some of them offer a masterless approach as well (so, push-based), but state that it is ‘not for production’ (Saltstack) or ‘less scalable’ (Puppet). The only system that I know of that … Read more
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Sometimes my saltmaster hangs for a while on salt ‘*’ test.ping waiting for downed minions to reply. Is there a way so see a list of connected minions, regardless of whether they respond to test.ping? Answer The official answer: salt-run manage.up Also useful are: salt-run manage.status salt-run manage.down AttributionSource : Link , Question Author : … Read more
