Template was specified incorrectly
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Sun 27 March 2016After reorganizing my salt configuration, I received the following error:
[ERROR ] Template was specified incorrectly: False
Enabling some debugging on the command gave me a slight pointer why this occurred:
[DEBUG ] Could not find file from saltenv 'testing', u'salt://top.sls'
[DEBUG ] No contents loaded for env: testing
[DEBUG ] compile template: False
[ERROR ] Template was specified incorrectly: False
I was using a single top file as recommended by Salt, but apparently it was still looking for top files in the other environments.
Yet, if I split the top files across the environments, I got the following warning:
[WARNING ] Top file merge strategy set to 'merge' and multiple top files found. Top file merging order is undefined; for better results use 'same' option
So what's all this about?
Using salt-ssh with agent forwarding
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Sat 26 March 2016Part of a system's security is to reduce the attack surface. Following this principle,
I want to see if I can switch from using regular salt minions for a saltstack managed
system set towards salt-ssh
. This would allow to do some system management over SSH
instead of ZeroMQ.
I'm not confident yet that this is a solid approach to take (as performance is also
important, which is greatly reduced with salt-ssh
), and the security exposure of the
salt minions over ZeroMQ is also not that insecure (especially not when a local firewall
ensures that only connections from the salt master are allowed). But playing doesn't hurt.