With a simple pillar like this::
$ sudo salt-call --config-dir /srv/etc/bootstrap --pillar-root /srv/pillar pillar.get salt:pillar_roots
local:
----------
base:
- /srv/pillar
This was generated in /etc/salt/master.d/f_defaults.conf::
# highstate format, and is generally just key/value pairs.
pillar_roots:base:- /srv/pillar
#
Resulting in parse errors by salt::
$ sudo salt '*' state.highstate
[ERROR ] Error parsing configuration file: /etc/salt/master.d/f_defaults.conf - while scanning a simple key
in "<string>", line 531, column 1:
pillar_roots:base:- /srv/pillar
^
could not found expected ':'
in "<string>", line 532, column 1:
#
^
[ERROR ] Error parsing configuration file: /etc/salt/master.d/f_defaults.conf - while scanning a simple key
in "<string>", line 531, column 1:
pillar_roots:base:- /srv/pillar
^
could not found expected ':'
in "<string>", line 532, column 1:
#
^
This patch will fix it as such::
ID: salt-master
Function: file.recurse
Name: /etc/salt/master.d
Result: True
Comment: Recursively updated /etc/salt/master.d
Started: 11:37:12.946823
Duration: 6255.296 ms
Changes:
----------
/etc/salt/master.d/f_defaults.conf:
----------
diff:
---
+++
@@ -528,7 +528,9 @@
# Pillar is laid out in the same fashion as the file server, with environments,
# a top file and sls files. However, pillar data does not need to be in the
# highstate format, and is generally just key/value pairs.
-pillar_roots:base:- /srv/pillar
+pillar_roots:
+ base:
+ - /srv/pillar
#
Resulting in::
# highstate format, and is generally just key/value pairs.
pillar_roots:
base:
- /srv/pillar
#
This commit fixes how `pillar_roots` are generated and after this fix the
generated configuration does not contain any unnecessary new lines:
```yaml
pillar_roots:
base:
/srv/salt/dir1
dev:
/srv/salt/dir2
/srv/salt/dir3
locale:
/srv/salt/dir4
```
Before this commit the pillar_roots in `f_defaults.conf` for master would be
generated with a lot of empty lines in between directories, like this:
```yaml
pillar_roots:
base:
/srv/salt/dir1
dev:
/srv/salt/dir2
/srv/salt/dir3
local:
/srv/salt/dir4
```
The minion configuration is not affected and renders fine.
Salt writes it's schedule file to /etc/salt/{minion,master}.d/_schedule.conf
We don't want to stomp all over Salt's files, but we do want a pristine
starting point to lay down our managed config. So we use clean: True on the
file.recurse call, but we tell it to ignore files that start with an _
We have to rename the current config file (_defaults.conf) because it will be
ignored by the rule that ignores Salt's _* config files.
This also means we need to clean up old config files (_defaults.conf) and
restart the service if we cleaned it up.
