Questions tagged [salt-project]
The Salt Project, previously known as SaltStack, is a Python-based open-source configuration management software and remote execution engine.
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How to automatically add custom grains attributes to minions using SaltStack Reactor?
I want to automatically add grains attributes to a minion when it authenticates or starts. I have added the following configuration to the reactor configuration file:
reactor:
- 'salt/auth':
- /...
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How to enforce a state only if a minon has SELinux installed?
I have code that installs a custom selinux module. In my fleet of minions there's Fedora-based systems (with SELinux installed) and Debian-based ones (without SELinux ). On the latter the module/...
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Unable to import custom libs in salt module
I have a module to work in bmi_minion (which is inside a container that is works in Kubernetes) to fetch some data. for this main module, I've written some custom libs which are stored in the same dir ...
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Unable to access default grains data in custom grains
I have a task to create custom grains in salt (/srv/salt/_grains). I have to access the default grains data for these custom grains to check the ms_minion serial_number. Unfortunately, I can't access ...
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Share command output between nodes
I would like to share the output of a command from one node to the other on running salt "*" state.apply.
My current solution involves mine.send and mine.get:
$ cat top.sls
base:
'master*':...
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salt pkgrepo.managed appending a new line on every run
I've defined a pkgrepo.managed state in my salt files. On every run of salt, it is adding an additional - and identical - line in the sources.list.d directory, resulting in an apt error. A google ...
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Salt error: "Jinja variable 'shell' is undefined"
I'm a little unclear as to why this error showed up. Loading users from pillar was working previously. I renamed a module from 'base' to 'common' to avoid confusion with the 'base' state in salt, and ...
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building a saltstack proxy tool used to execute commands in a multimaster model
I am supposed to set up syndic peers that are class A masters and minions are connected in a multimaster set-up. A proxy tools is to be built that can route the command to the right master for it to ...
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How to refresh grain data in saltstack
I'm currently using the ec2_tags.py grain to expose tags to salt. Once run, it does not seem to update when tags on the instance change. Do I need to force salt to refresh? If so how?
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Use multiple statements in the same Jinja block {% ... %}
Here is an example code from an SLS (salt stack) file, using Jinja:
{% set here = 'some-value' -%}
{%- set user = 'my_user' -%}
{%- set group = 'my_group' -%}
{%- set all_users = salt['user....
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How to require a State run on a separate minion without orchestration?
I am working on salt states to fail multiple applications over from one prod cluster to another. I want to run 2 salt states (stop_service and iisreset). stop_service will run only on servers on ...
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How can I recursively filter config data using Salt Jinja2 template
I want to filter my data by server name. Here is my config and map file. I try to filter first by pillar (which works), then by grain (which doesn't work). How do I do a double filter? Goal is to pull ...
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Salt-stack: unable to find mounted network drive from salt-master to salt-minion
I have a salt master and a salt-minion (windows server 2019) that i am trying to use a salt-state to install some applications. As part of this install i want to copy a number of files from a mounted ...
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How to define the output of salt status
When I execute the module, its output is as follows:
{'TEST': {'pid': 116441,
'retcode': 0,
'stdout': ' total used free shared buff/cache available\nMem: ...
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Salt-Stack minions behind proxy and AD Authentication
I can't acomplish this scenary to work.
I have Salt-Master version 3006.7 on Ubuntu 22, and minions running on Windows behind a Squid Proxy using NTLMv2 Authentication integrated with Active Directory....
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