Startup States¶
Sometimes it may be desired that the salt minion execute a state run when it is started. This alleviates the need for the master to initiate a state run on a new minion and can make provisioning much easier.
As of Salt 0.10.3 the minion config reads options that allow for states to be executed at startup. The options are startup_states, sls_list and top_file.
The startup_states option can be passed one of a number of arguments to define how to execute states. The available options are:
- highstate
- Execute
state.highstate
- sls
- Read in the
sls_list
option and execute the named sls files - top
- Read in the
top_file
option and execute states based on that top file on the Salt Master
Examples:¶
Execute state.highstate
when starting the minion:
startup_states: highstate
Execute the sls files edit.vim and hyper:
startup_states: sls
sls_list:
- edit.vim
- hyper