Salt configuration for workstations

Salt configuration for configure and setup my current workstation. Optimized for my current setup which is a Thinkpad X220 running debian jessie.

Influenced by linux-salted and yourlabs salt formulas testing, dotfiles are influenced/copied from Jessie Frazelle.

Setup and apply

Automatic

Checkout this repo and run the included install script which will run all manual steps.

make install
make apply

Manual

1. Install salt-minion

curl -L https://bootstrap.saltstack.com -o install_salt.sh
sudo sh install_salt.sh

2. Set salt to run masterless

To instruct the minion to not look for a master, the file_client configuration option needs to be set in the minion configuration file.

In /ect/salt/minion set file_client: local

 echo "master: localhost \
file_client: local" > /etc/salt/minion

NOTE: When running Salt in masterless mode, do not run the salt-minion daemon. Otherwise, it will attempt to connect to a master and fail. The salt-call command stands on its own and does not need the salt-minion daemon.

3. Apply state

Now you ready to apply states or configure the entire system with a highstate.

salt-call --local state.highstate -l debug

you can also apply each state individual

salt-call --local state.sls base -l debug

Testing

This command will apply highstate on localhost with the example pillar.

salt-call state.highstate --local --retcode-passthrough --file-root=$(pwd)/state --pillar-root=$(pwd)/pillar -l debug

inside a container

docker run --rm -it \
  --name=thinkpad \
  -h thinkpad \
  -e SALT_NAME=thinkpad \
  -e SALT_USE=minion \
  -v `pwd`/:/srv/salt:rw \
  -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime \
  quay.io/jacksoncage/salt
  salt-call state.highstate \
  --local --retcode-passthrough \
  --file-root=$(pwd)/state \
  --pillar-root=$(pwd)/pillar