🧂 Useful tips on Salt and related tools. Tweets by @maxim_arnold
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27 Feb 2025
First experiments with pytest-vagrant to run integration tests on a Windows VM with OpenSSH.
VMs as fixtures are cool!
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3 Nov 2024
For those who have been affected by the rushed Salt repo migration and bootstrap script breakages, @Turtletraction has created two unofficial mirrors to help smooth the migration process. Please use responsibly.
linkedin.com/posts/kristoffe…
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Update on @Salt_Project_OS package repo migration efforts:
The Salt Install Guide has been updated to reflect the Salt package repository migration, and salt-bootstrap is non-functional as fixes to the scripts are underway.
saltproject.io/blog/salt-ins…
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29 Oct 2024
Heads up!
A disruptive change is about to happen with Salt packages repository:
saltproject.io/blog/salt-pro…
For those who want to mirror the current repository, check out the following guide: docs.saltproject.io/salt/ins…
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15 Aug 2024
If you want to distribute an internal Salt Extension without publishing it on PyPI, try devpi: github.com/devpi/devpi
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18 May 2024
Salt is looking for community maintainers, Idem is stopped: saltproject.io/blog/open-hou…
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11 Apr 2024
APNIC course on Network Automation mirceaulinic.net/2024-04-11-…
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3 Apr 2024
The concept of durable executions and workflows is fascinating!
github.com/microsoft/durable…
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29 Feb 2024
Is there a way to prevent salt-minion from starting up at the end of the package installation on Ubuntu?
Yes, but Ubuntu/Debian need special handling as the salt-bootstrap -X option does nothing:
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31 Jan 2024
If you use Salt SSH, read on.
I created an initial document that compares Salt SSH and Heist. The goal is to identify the gaps between what Heist can do and what Salt-SSH can do.
Comments are appreciated!
gist.github.com/max-arnold/d…
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31 Jan 2024
A bit of context (no need to watch everything, just 1-2 minutes): youtu.be/CubGR8rTy3Y?feature…
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29 Jan 2024
Easily rotate GnuPG encryption keys (e.g. for encrypted pillars): github.com/raddessi/salt-gnu…
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8 Dec 2023
Watching "salt-run state.event" can be overwhelming. Fortunately, you can use regular expressions to watch only for specific event tags:
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8 Dec 2023
By combining it with jq you can filter the output based on event fields! The following command will only show job returns from "state.sls" and "state.apply":
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