Configuring salt with salt

[Oly]

For a long time I have stored our minion and master config in git. This is problematic as the configuration options extend/change over time - so I frequently compare our config file to the default supplied with new versions. I would like to write a salt formula to configure my minions and master (obviously the minion needs a minimum of being able to talk to its master first) so that I do not have to go through this process. I have searched around but cannot find a module/state to access the minion configuration - I'm sure I must be missing something obvious, can anyone point me in the right direction?

I am aware that I could use file.blockreplace etc. but that seems a clunky and unreliable way to do it.

Oly

[Wolodja Wentland]

Hi,

Did you take a look at https://github.com/saltstack-formulas/salt-formula already?

Wolodja

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[Oly]

salt-formula looks really good for easily creating downstream masters and minions but it doesn't really have anything for setting salt configuration options. Still looking ...

[Thomas Phipps]

which minion configs are you looking at pushing? most minion configs can actually be handled through pillar.

read up on config.get which handled most of the minions configs.

https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/modules/all/salt.modules.config.html#salt.modules.config.get

On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 7:07 AM Oly <oliver...@gmail.com> wrote:

salt-formula looks really good for easily creating downstream masters and minions but it doesn't really have anything for setting salt configuration options. Still looking ...

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[Oliver Dungey]

Long delay - I've done some testing with config.get today: I put the value 'master_tries: 777' in the minions pillar data (and tested with pillar.item, the value 777 is returned). Then I call config.get to see if the pillar value has any impact but it returns 1 (the default) and seems to ignore the pillar setting. This doesn't seem to comply with the documentation.

I was assuming that I would be able to override any minion setting in pillar data but this doesn't seem to be the case. Even if it does override the setting - will it need a minion restart to take effect?

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[Thomas Phipps]

anything that has to do with contacting the master is not affected. and also why I said 'most' not 'all' when I suggested pillars. 

also you do need to refresh the pillar cache. with saltutil.refresh_pillars. but a restart is not required.