What exactly can Salt-Syndic do?

[Jacob Albretsen]

Environment: CentOS 6 and Salt 0.11.1 from EPEL.

I'm attempting to set up syndic to run on our servers. Right now I have:

master -> bunches-of-minion-in-all-environments

I want to limit what boxes go through our firewall (VPN) to another offsite
environment so I can have:

masterofmasters -> some-local-minions

AND

masterofmasters -> syndic-elsewhere -> minions-elsewhere

I had to remove the key file from the minion-elsewhere and approve it on the
syndic server. I can now on masterofmasters do a test.ping to the minion-
elsewhere and get True. However on the minion-elsewhere, if I do a "salt-call
state.highstate test=True", I get

[INFO ] Loaded configuration file: /etc/salt/minion
[INFO ] Executing command 'ps -efH' in directory '/root'
[INFO ] Loading fresh modules for state activity
[INFO ] Fetching file 'salt://top.sls'
local:
----------
State: - no
Name: states
Function: None
Result: False
Comment: No Top file or external nodes data matches found
Changes:

Do I need something else? Is the pass-through for syndic only one way?

Thanks,

- Jake

[David Boucha]

Yeah, it's one way.

The syndic is a lightweight pass through. It's not much more than a regular minion.

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[Jon Yoder]

Pardon the newbie question here, but I can't find the answer anywhere else.

I've installed Salt on a couple of Linux Mint machines using the PPA and
I can't use the pkg and apt modules. I don't see apt listed when I run a
salt --doc on the master. What am I doing wrong here?

--Jon

[David Boucha]

You'll want to use the pkg module. The pkg module uses apt or yum or whatever to provide a unified interface.

--Jon

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[Jon Yoder]

On 02/01/2013 06:57 PM, David Boucha wrote:
> You'll want to use the pkg module. The pkg module uses apt or yum or
> whatever to provide a unified interface.

Having seen that the pkg module was a virtual one, I've looked for that,
too. There is a pkg_resource, but not one that is just pkg. Suggestions?

--Jon

[Joseph Hall]

I wonder if your using Mint is causing the pkg virtual package not to be loaded.

You haven't explicitly said, so I have to ask: are you able to use any
pkg functions?

Also, would you please post anything from grains.items that starts
with "lsb" or "os"?

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[Jon Yoder]

On 02/01/2013 07:38 PM, Joseph Hall wrote:
> I wonder if your using Mint is causing the pkg virtual package not to be loaded.
>
> You haven't explicitly said, so I have to ask: are you able to use any
> pkg functions?

I don't think so. I've tried calling pkg.list_upgrades and
pkg.refresh_db() and in both cases I get a "pkg.____ is not available"
error back from the minion.

> Also, would you please post anything from grains.items that starts
> with "lsb" or "os"?

lsb_codename: maya
lsb_description: Linux Mint 13 Maya
lsb_id: LinuxMint
lsb_release: 13
os: Mint
os_family: Mint
oscodename: maya
osfullname: LinuxMint
osrelease: 13


Having looked a little more closely at grains.items now, is the fact
that os_family is not Debian the culprit here?

--Jon

[Joseph Hall]

> Having looked a little more closely at grains.items now, is the fact that
> os_family is not Debian the culprit here?

Looks like it. If you want to submit an issue on GitHub, we can get
that patched up.

[Jon Yoder]

On 02/01/2013 08:24 PM, Joseph Hall wrote:
>> Having looked a little more closely at grains.items now, is the fact that
>> os_family is not Debian the culprit here?
>
> Looks like it. If you want to submit an issue on GitHub, we can get
> that patched up.
>

Will do. Thanks!

--Jon

[Ben Hosmer]

Jon, 

Can you try out the latest push to develop? I think this might solve your Mint issues.

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