Avoid typo (dry-run): salt-ssh somehost state.sls webserver.root rest=True

[Thomas Güttler]

If I want to test what happens, I use "test=True".

Just now I did this:

    salt-ssh somehost state.sls webserver.root rest=True

And the state got applied. It was live, not dry-run like I wanted.

I was lucky, the typo ("rest" instead of "test") did no harm.

But is there no better way? With "better" I mean: if I have

a type in the dry-run argument, then the tools should

do nothing and tell me that I did a typo.

According to this page "test=True" seems like the current "state of the art":

  https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/states/testing.html

Regards,

  Thomas Güttler

[Guillaume De Koker]

In our team, most people use an alias with a reverse logic. if they don't specify test=false, it won't apply.

If i'm not wrong, it's up to you right now, there is nothing in place to force it to true.

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[Dimitri Maziuk]

On 9/10/2019 7:07 AM, Guillaume De Koker wrote:
> In our team, most people use an alias with a reverse logic. if they
> don't specify test=false, it won't apply.

--dry-run should be a command-line argument, then if you mistype
--fry-bun argparse will barf and not run the command. When it's an
arbitrary key-value pair with no checking, that's just bad UI.

Dima

[Salty Vagrant]

I’ve recently take not setting test: True in pillar data. Then one has to specify a command line override (e.g. test=True) to have a state/highstate actual apply.

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[Thomas Güttler]

Thank you all for your feedback. Now I now that I am not alone with this pain.

I have plans for the future, but I don't want to discuss them here.