Salt stack issues

• The function “state.apply” is running as PID

Restart salt-minion with command: service salt-minion restart

• No matching sls found for ‘init’ in env ‘base’

Add top.sls file in the directory where your main sls file is present.

Create the file as follows:

base:
'web*':
- apache

If the sls is present in a subdirectory elasticsearch/init.sls then write the top.sls as:

base:
'*':
- elasticsearch.init

• How to execute saltstack-formulas
  1. create file /srv/pillar/top.sls with content:

  base:
    '*':
      - salt

  2. create file /srv/pillar/salt.sls with content:

  salt:
    master:
      worker_threads: 2
      fileserver_backend:
        - roots
        - git
      gitfs_remotes:
        - git://github.com/saltstack-formulas/epel-formula.git
        - git://github.com/saltstack-formulas/git-formula.git
        - git://github.com/saltstack-formulas/nano-formula.git
        - git://github.com/saltstack-formulas/rabbitmq-formula.git
        - git://github.com/saltstack-formulas/remi-formula.git
        - git://github.com/saltstack-formulas/vim-formula.git
        - git://github.com/saltstack-formulas/salt-formula.git
        - git://github.com/saltstack-formulas/users-formula.git
      external_auth:
        pam:
          tiger:
            - .*
            - '@runner'
            - '@wheel'
      file_roots:
        base:
          - /srv/salt
      pillar_roots:
        base:
          - /srv/pillar
      halite:
        level: 'debug'
        server: 'gevent'
        host: '0.0.0.0'
        port: '8080'
        cors: False
        tls: True
        certpath: '/etc/pki/tls/certs/localhost.crt'
        keypath: '/etc/pki/tls/certs/localhost.key'
        pempath: '/etc/pki/tls/certs/localhost.pem'
    minion:
      master: localhost

  3. before you can use saltstack-formula you need to make one change to /etc/salt/master and add next config:

  fileserver_backend:
    - roots
    - git
  gitfs_remotes:
    - git://github.com/saltstack-formulas/salt-formula.git

  4. restart salt-master (e.g. service salt-master restart)
  5. run salt-call state.sls salt.master
• The Salt Master has cached the public key for this node

Execute the following command:

delete the exiting key on master by:

salt-key -d <minion-id>

then restart minion. Then reaccept the key on master:

salt-key -a <minion-id>

• If salt-cloud is giving error as below:

Missing dependency: ‘netaddr’. The openstack driver requires ‘netaddr’ to be installed.

Execute the command: yum install python-netaddr

then verify if your provider is loaded with command: salt-cloud –list-providers

• Remove dead minions keys in salt

salt-run manage.down removekeys=True