Salt is the configuration management tool
My first section 02/02/2020
Deploying Salt event monitoring for Splunk
Custom grains 10/20/2019
_grains/mdr_environment.py This file discovers which aws account the ec2 instnace is in. grain is called mdr_environment but it is broken on salt master, the minion has a static file /etc/salt/grains saltutil.sync_grains
Highstate 11/20/2019
Cron job for state.apply ( DISABLED DURING REFACTOR ) salt manages a cron job on the master
salt-minion reactor
when a salt-minion restarts the reactor kicks off a state.apply. This causes a notification when the salt-minion starts up and you try to apply a state.
gitfs lock file
/var/cache/salt/master/gitfs/gitfs-base-msoc/.git/update.lk
Test salt master
Switch branch on test salt-master for testing salt-run fileserver.update salt-run fileserver.file_list | grep mystuff