Multiple Environments in SaltStack

[particlepineapple]

Hi, 

I'm trying to set up multiple environments in saltstack and have read through the documentation, but I'm not sure I'm doing it right. Here's what I have configured:

/etc/salt/master:

#####      File Server settings      #####

##########################################

# Default:

file_roots:

  base:

    - /srv/salt/base

  dev:

    - /srv/salt/dev

  qa:

    - /srv/salt/qa

  prod:

    - /srv/salt/prod

top.sls:

base:

  '*':

    - global

prod:

  'storm*prod':

    - prod.storm

  'kafka*prod:

    - prod.kafka

  'hadoop*prod':

    - prod.CDH4

dev:

  '*dev':

    - dev

qa:

  '*qa':

    - qa

Directory structure for saltstates:

[root@salt-server salt]$ ls /srv/salt/

dev  global  prod  qa  server  top.sls

What I'm looking to have happen is that a minion with a hostname like kafka-randomstringhere-prod would pull from the /srv/salt/prod/kafka state tree. However, it's unclear to me whether I have to specify the sls files underneath the kafka directory or not. By default I believe it pulls kafka/init.sls, right? 

Does that look like a feasible setup? Am I understanding the way this works? 

Related question is if I have a specific version of Java that needs to be installed on only some hosts, like the CDH4 hosts, if I put a java.sls file under the /prod/cdh4 directory will it run that automatically or do I have to do something like an include? Is there a way to make sure it runs the java.sls file before it runs the init.sls file? 

Thanks in advance.

[ArKam]

Hi particulepinneapple,

did you find a way to achieve this? I'm looking for the really same solution and don't really know how to operate my filesystem structure as you indeed. :D