Examples of managing Windows services with states?

[Fredrik Averpil]

Hi,

I'm new to Salt and having a bit of a hard time to wrap my head around how I can manage Windows services and nest requires/watch conditions. I assume the win_service module is the way to go to manage services as I want to do the following:

- Make sure a service is installed and running

- If it is not installed or of wrong version, (possibly uninstall and) install the proper version

- The service requires access to a configuration file, and if this file is not available, it needs to be copied onto the minion (preferably from the salt master)

- A specific port must be open in the firewall, and if not, a rule needs to be added

Is there a recommended approach on how to add this kind of service to a highstate?

The service installer is not provided via a package manager, and must be installed/uninstalled from .msi.

Any suggestions are very much appreciated.

Regards,

Fredrik

[Megan Wilhite]

You can use saltstacks windows software repository documented here: https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/windows/windows-package-manager.html to install the packages.

Does that help clarify everything?

[Fredrik Averpil]

Yes, I believe I solved everything by creating a custom win_repo pkg for my application. 

The Windows Software Repository packages are located in /srv/salt/win/repo-ng/salt-winrepo-ng

I created a custom package for my specific application. Unfortunately, it doesn't make sense to push this to the official repository as the binary installer isn't available online and is created by a third-party vendor.

Is there a prefered place where I can place such custom packages for the Windows Software Repository?

Right now I've placed it into /srv/salt/win/repo-ng/salt-winrepo-ng  ...but that doesn't feel too clean. I would have wanted to put it inside e.g. /srv/salt/_win_repo or something. I know I can create a full-blown git repo and include that, but that's a bit overkill at the moment.

Thanks,

Fredrik

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