SaltStack Reactor fails with exception

Question

I have the next conf files for salt reactor:

1. reactor.conf

• 'salt/netapi/hook/cd':
  • /srv/reactor/dev.sls

2. dev.sls

# vim: sts=2 ts=2 sw=2 et ai

{% set payload = data.get('post') %}

{%      set master = [grains.fqdn] %}

core|api|{{ master }}|jenkins-cd:
  runner.state.orchestrate:
    - tgt: {{ master }}
    - mods: myreactor.deploy
    - pillar:
        temp_var_transmit: {{ payload }}

3. deploy.sls

{%      set payload = salt.pillar.get('temp_var_transmit') %}
{%      set master = [grains.fqdn] %}
my_state:
  salt.function:
    - name: cmd.run
    - tgt: {{ master }}
    - arg:
      - "salt-run state.orch my-reactor.cd_state pillar='{\"temp_var_transmit\":{\"host\":\"{{payload['host']}}\",\"artifact_id\":\"{{payload['artifact_id']}}\",\"artifact_version\":\"{{payload['artifact_version']}}\"}}'"
{% endfor %}

4. cd_state.sls

{% set data = salt.pillar.get('temp_var_transmit') %}
my_deploy:
  salt.state:
    - tgt: {{ member }}
    - expr_form: compound
    - sls: '{{ data.artifact_id }}_{{ data.artifact_version }}'
    - queue: true
    - test: {{ dry_run_mode }}

When I send API request and run salt-runner.events, I get the next error:

jid": "20180119065728472630", 
    "return": "Exception occurred in runner state.orchestrate: Traceback (most recent call last):\n  File \"/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/salt/client/mixins.py\", line 395, in _low\n    data['return'] = self.functions[fun](*args, **kwargs)\nTypeError: orchestrate() argument after ** must be a mapping, not list\n", 
    "success": false, 
    "user": "Reactor"

Any thoughts?

Answer 1

I was able to find the root of issue. The problem was in the configuration of salt master. After every change of reactor config, I must run salt-call state.highstate command on master to sync reactor source code changes with it. I missed this step and thus my reactor config differed from my original source code in IDE. So once I ran mentioned command, everything became in sync. Thanks everybody for help!

P.S. regarding mentioned error, it occurred because I used kwarg in dev.sls for pillar and represented pillar as list:

>     kwarg:
>      - pillar:
>          temp_var_transmit: {{ payload }}

Kwarg can not contain a list in this case. It may contain key:value format only. So the correct way is either use without kwarg as I did or remove hyphen near pillar.