====== SALT states ======
^ Documentation ^|
^Name:| SALT states |
^Description:| SALT states: Understanding the whole thing|
^Modification date :|17/10/2018|
^Owner:|warlock86@gmail.com & dodger@ciberterminal.net |
^Notify changes to:| backops |
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====== Quick description ======
Salt states are a set of:
* Packages
* Files
* Commands
* Configurations
That will be applied to any machine (minion) so that machine can:
* perform some set of actions
* take some pre-configured role
=== Example ===
* Lamp state will install (at a glance):
* http
* mariadb
* php
* Open firewall ports
====== States basic knowledge ======
* All states **MUST** be on salt-master folder:
/srv/salt/base
\\
* states files has ''*.sls'' extension.
* The states has YAML standard syntax.
* Verify (basic) states syntax (if the state has [[https://pypi.org/project/Jinja2/|jinja2]] statements will fail):
python -c "from yaml import load, Loader; load(open('STATEFILE.sls'),Loader=Loader)"