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.

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

make install
make apply

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

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.

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

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

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