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How to examine Jinja output in Saltstack?
Check out the slsutil.renderer module.
This should do what you want
salt my-minion-id slsutil.renderer /srv/salt/network/init.sls 'jinja'
This module just calls the compile_template function ...
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How to examine Jinja output in Saltstack?
Given how much time I spent weeks ago struggling with a closely-related issue, I wish I'd figured this out sooner.
The solution appears to be to use salt.modules.cp.get_template to have the Salt ...
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Check a process is running with Salt Stack?
It's a bit hacky, but you can always do something like:
check_process:
cmd.run:
- name: ps aux | grep '[f]oobar'
The exit code will be non-zero and the state will fail if foobar doesn't exist.
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Jenkins Groovy to parse console output and mark build failure
This question seems similar to another on StackOverflow, but seems to be a close, but not exact duplicate of
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37018509/jenkinsfile-build-log
To quote those :
...
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Using requisite injection to order states
This turns out to be a known issue:
The require_in requisite does not support everything that require does, mainly id does not support sls or state_id without specifying a state module.
So by ...
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How to insert a minion Powershell variable into Salt Pillar or Mine?
You can only insert the return into the mine.
Just specify the cmd.run (or possibly cmd.script) in your mine_functions and you will get the whole return back.
If you want to have a script that sets ...
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Constructing Dependencies from a Pillar in Saltstack
This templated SLS file works splendidly:
{% if 'components' in salt.pillar.items() %}
include:
{% for component in salt.pillar.get('components').keys() %}
- {{ component }}
{% endfor %}
{% endif ...
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What is a glob in salt-stack?
Globbing is a term used for matching file name patterns with wild cards. You can see a more detailed definition here https://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/definition/globbing
As it relates to Salt ...
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Where are dunder dictionaries stored in salt?
There are currently 5 dunder dictionaries. They are available at runtime and generally not stored statically.
__opts__ - Master or Minion configuration options; stored in configuration files of ...
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Is it possible to use multiple if statements in a salt state?
You can have more than if statement per state. The issue is that your conditional doesn't seem actually be checking the hostname, it's just passing everything. Try this:
{% if grains['host'] in ['dev-...
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Constructing Dependencies from a Pillar in Saltstack
You can also do it like:
{% if pillar['components'] is defined %}
include:
{% for component in pillar['components'] %}
- {{ component }}
{% endfor %}
{% endif %}
{% if pillar['components'] is ...
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Best method of retrieving environment information via Salt Stack?
SaltStack provides a method for modifying grains and adding additional information to the grains dictionary in several different ways by either setting them in the /etc/salt/minion config and/or ...
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Salt Stack Reporting - Executing commands based on environment
The answer is that you can't directly. You have to set a grain on the minions first by doing something similar to:
salt '*' cmd.run 'grep environment /etc/salt/minion | awk "{print \"environment: \" \...
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Securely grab minion ID in pillar top file template?
There is currently one safe way to do this.
You can use {{opts.id}} as an explicit way to grab the minion ID. opts is technically an implementation detail; the opts dictionary is a Salt internal ...
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Salt Stack environments ignoring saltenv
State and pillar environments are set independently.
Specifing
environment: prod
in the minion configuration will force the minion to use the prod state, but it will still use the default pillar ...
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How can I share a (global) variable between salt states?
When I encountered a related problem, I wound up having Jinja run execute Salt modules.
In my case, it was cmd.run to run mktmp (and, at the end of the template, rm for cleanup), with file.append and ...
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Salt State is running against all servers except one, why?
I have found the answer to my own question after some more investigation.
The reason the state was skipping the contents of my if statement was because the hostname of the server was in lower-case (...
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salt-stack: capture group for regex include_pat
A capture group is a type of backreference. Saltstack, being python based, uses the re.match object to do regular expression matching, which appears to support backreferences, so these backreferences ...
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Ansible event driven capacity
I can't say that I've used SaltStack, but I have a good deal of experience with Ansible. The two are different approaches. Event based use is not hidden, it is just not there by itself.
Ansible is ...
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Why unable to find the exact path for grains storage in master?
These are built-in grains, which are collected at minion startup. Here's the code responsible for generating them.
You cannot remove them, but you can overwrite them, for example to an empty value in ...
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Ansible event driven capacity
There's a new Ansible Event-Driven automation. It constantly listens to triggers from variety of sources such as - Altertmanager, Kafka clients etc.
Official Site -
https://www.ansible.com/use-cases/...
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Jinja syntax error: missing endif, in spite of providing it
There is no error in what you have posted here. The error lies elsewhere in your code which you did not include in the OP. Using the Jinja live parser, when pasting in:
{% if spade.corename == 'FI' ...
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Set umask for an individual salt state
Edit update April 3rd 2023:
As of salt 3006 (https://salt.tips/whats-new-in-salt-sulfur/#umask) umask is now a global state argument and can be specified on any state.
Original work around for pre ...
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saltstack: archive.extracted template jinja
There is no much choices regarding your situation, I see two of them :
You ask your dev dpt to add your jinja templating to their builds (which may be hard or even impossible)
You can use salt module ...
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Why is IF failing with satl state file from Jenkins?
The jinja syntax error is caused by the {{ around your job var.
Those curly braces are not required as you are already inside jinja block, noted by the {%.
So to get your code working just replace ...
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How to assign saltstack pillar values from Jenkins comma separated input parameters?
You didn't say how the sls file is executed.
One way would be to pass pillars on command line:
salt '*' state.apply ftpsync pillar='{"ftpusername": "test", "ftppassword": "0ydyfww3giq8"}'
Or you ...
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Saltstack Jinja template pillar merge
The "saltey" way of doing this is typically in a map.jinja file. This one for example...
In that, you would:
{%- load_yaml as serverlist %}
#Note that a default list could be provided here
{%- ...
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How to add multiple jvm options in a saltstack jinja?
Perhaps a macro might be what you are looking for.
Understanding Jinja:Macros
In the lib.sls example in the link (pasted below), it sets a value contingent on the value of the if statement. I think ...
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SaltStack states pattern and replace for multiple files under directory and for multiple line matches
You should use Jinja to loop over a list of files and pattern/replacement pairs.
{% set files = ['/a/foo.sh', '/b/bar.sh', '/b/baz.sh'] %}
{% for file in files %}
{% for p, r in [('/aaa/bbb', '/aaa/...
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Jenkins Groovy to parse console output and mark build failure
I solved this problem by following this answer on StackOverflow.
You can use currentBuild.rawBuild.getLog(10) (the 10 specifies that you want the last 10 lines) to get the last few lines of the log ...
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