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Salt Cookbook

You're reading from   Salt Cookbook Over 80 hands-on recipes to efficiently configure and manage your infrastructure with Salt

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784399740
Length 350 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Anirban Saha Anirban Saha
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Salt Architecture and Components FREE CHAPTER 2. Writing Advanced Salt Configurations 3. Modules, Orchestration, and Scaling Salt 4. General Administration Tasks 5. Advanced Administration Tasks 6. Managing Application Servers 7. Managing Databases 8. Configuring Salt Cloud 9. Managing Amazon Web Services 10. Salt Event and Reactor System 11. Troubleshooting Index

Using state modules


In the previous recipe, you learned about how you can use execution modules to perform configuration tasks in Salt. In this recipe, you are going to learn about of what state modules are and how to use them.

How to do it...

We will use the same minion and the same example as the previous recipe, but we will do the same task using state modules.

  1. Create a new state in the staging environment called cron by creating a new directory called cron and create a file in it called init.sls.

  2. Edit the init.sls file to have the following contents:

    find /var/log/ -mtime +30 -exec rm -rf {] \;:
      cron.present:
        - user: root
        - minute: 00
        - hour: 12
        - daymonth: '*'
        - month: '*'
        - dayweek: '*'
  3. Run the following command to apply the state to the minion:

    [root@salt-master  ~]# salt 'stgdc1log01' state.sls cron saltenv=staging
    stgdc1log01:
    ----------
              ID: find /var/log/ -mtime +30 -exec rm -rf {] \;
        Function: cron.present
          Result: True
         Comment: Cron...
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