Salt Stack configuration management

• improve output of state.apply to a lot of minions

  • salt --state-output=mixed --summary "*" state.apply backups.deploy

  • sudo salt-call --state-verbose=false state.apply

salt edit /etc/fstab

• Edit lines in fstab e.g. Match cloudimg-rootfs and set the last 0 to a 1

  •  $ sudo salt "*" cmd.run "sed -i '/cloudimg-rootfs\s/ s/0$/1/ ; /cloudimg-bootfs\s/ s/0$/2/' /etc/fstab ; cat /etc/fstab" 

Cloud deploy salt-cloud

• With python debug pudb
  • sudo pudb /usr/bin/salt-cloud --log-level info --map=/etc/salt/cloud.maps.d/softlayer-maps-SVRCONFIG-SALTMASTER.conf

Fix salt-stack apt repo to stable version

• edit /etc/apt/sources.list/saltstack.list

  • deb https://repo.saltstack.com/apt/ubuntu/14.04/amd64/2017.7 trusty main

• Fix  NO_PUBKEY 0E08A149DE57BFBE 

  • sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 0E08A149DE57BFBE

Run from dev branch

• Use pip

  $ sudo pip install salt==2018.3.0rc1

  or

• $ git clone git@github.com:saltstack/salt.git

• git remote add upstream https://github.com/saltstack/salt

• $ git fetch --tags
• virtualenv salt
• source ./salt/bin/activate
• pip install -e ./salt

Links

• Online yaml parser - http://yaml-online-parser.appspot.com/

• http://seedickcode.com/devops/saltstack/saltstack-a-better-salt-top-sls-part-2/

• surveys

  • http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18092979/how-can-i-aggregate-saltstack-command-results

  • https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/runners/all/salt.runners.survey.html

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