RFH: salt plugin

[Christian McHugh]

Howdy everybody,

A while back I created a plugin that allows you to define a build step that kicks off salt calls through saltapi's rest interface.

https://github.com/jenkinsci/saltstack-plugin

https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/saltstack-plugin

The plugin works well for the intended purposes. However, I am not a (java) programmer and due to a job change will not have as much time to dedicate to becoming one :) As such, I was wondering if there was anyone in the community willing to help assist with maintenance of this plugin and perhaps help with modernizing and properly jenkins'ing the codebase. 

Specifically, I just released a version of the plugin that trades out username/password fields in favor of using credentials ( :) ), but after making the release I've gotten a bug report that the credentials dropdown isn't being populated as expected ( :( )

https://github.com/jenkinsci/saltstack-plugin/issues/16

This functionality works for me and some others that participated in some beta releases, but since I'm not able to replicate I'm not sure where to go from here. 

Is anyone able to provide guidance or direction on credentials usage or able to perform a quick code review with me? 

Thanks much!

[Bruno P. Kinoshita]

Hi Christian,

We are evaluating Saltstack at work, and one of the tasks assigned to me is to look into how to integrate our PHP/Java builds with the server provisioning and configuration.

I have a working test environment with one master and two minions, so will try to install saltstack-plugin in a test Jenkins server and then toy with it a little bit, and also try to reproduce the issue with the credentials-plugin. Will report any comments in that issue (though I think it might be better to use Jenkins JIRA?).

Thanks

Bruno

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[Christian McHugh]

Thanks much Bruno!

Luckily, the credentials issue was discovered to be user error where they were only attempting to use a ssh key instead of a simple username/password. 

Should you, or anyone, feel like poking at the plugin though, the other issues on the todo list are:

 * properly object orienting the code base to be more in line with java and jenkins practices

 * moving the code base over to use the SuSe developed saltapi library (last I looked we were waiting on feature developments from the saltlib project)

 * supporting the new pipeline/workflow plugin