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Salt Cookbook

By : Anirban Saha
Book Image

Salt Cookbook

By: Anirban Saha

Overview of this book

If you are a professional associated with system and infrastructure management, looking at automated infrastructure and deployments, then this book is for you. No prior experience of Salt is required.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
12
Index

Using pillar data in states

How to do it...

  1. Create a new state user by creating a directory called user in the base directory of the qa environment and create an init.sls file in the user directory.
  2. Edit /opt/salt-cookbook/qa/user/init.sls and populate it with the following entries:
    qa_deploy_user:
      user.present:
        - name: {{ pillar['users']['qa_user'] }}
        - password: {{ pillar['users']['qa_user_password'] }}
  3. Run the following command to apply the state to the minion:
    [root@salt-master ~]# salt 'salt-minion' state.sls user \ saltenv=qa --state-output=terse
    salt-minion:
      Name: qa-app - Function: user.present - Result: Changed
    
    Summary
    ------------
    Succeeded: 1
    Failed:    0
    ------------
    Total:     1
    
  4. Edit the /opt/salt-cookbook/pillar/qa/user/init.sls file and remove the following line:
    qa_user: qa-app
  5. Reopen the /opt/salt-cookbook/qa/user/init.sls file and edit it to have the following entries:
    qa_deploy_user:
      user.present:
        - name: {...