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Salt 0.8.9 Release Notes
Salt 0.8.9 has finally arrived! Unfortunately this is much later than I had hoped to release 0.8.9, life has been very crazy over the last month. But despite challenges, Salt has moved forward!
This release, as expected, adds few new features and many refinements. One of the most exciting aspect of this release is that the development community for salt has grown a great deal and much of the code is from contributors.
Also, I have filled out the documentation a great deal. So information on States is properly documented, and much of the documentation that was out of date has been filled in.
Download!
The Salt source can be downloaded from PyPI:
https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/salt/salt-0.8.9.tar.gz
Here s the md5sum:
7d5aca4633bc22f59045f59e82f43b56
For instructions on how to set up Salt please see the installation
instructions.
New Features
Salt Run
A big feature is the addition of Salt run, the salt-run
command allows for master side execution modules to be made that gather
specific information or execute custom routines from the master.
Documentation for salt-run can be found here <runners>
Refined Outputters
One problem often complained about in salt was the fact that the
output was so messy. Thanks to help from Jeff Schroeder a cleaner
interface for the command output for the Salt CLI has been made. This
new interface makes adding new printout formats easy and additions to
the capabilities of minion modules makes it possible to set the printout
mode or outputter for functions in minion modules.
Cross Calling Salt Modules
Salt modules can now call each other, the __salt__ dict
has been added to the predefined references in minion modules. This new
feature is documented in the modules documentation <writing-execution-modules>.
Watch Option Added to Salt State System
Now in Salt states you can set the watch option, this will allow watch enabled states to change based on a change in the other defined states. This is similar to subscribe and notify statements in puppet.
Root Dir Option
Travis Cline has added the ability to define the option
root_dir which allows the salt minion to operate in a
subdir. This is a strong move in supporting the minion running as an
unprivileged user
Config Files Defined in Variables
Thanks again to Travis Cline, the master and minion configuration file locations can be defined in environment variables now.
New Modules
Quite a few new modules, states, returners, and runners have been made.
New Minion Modules
apt
Support for apt-get has been added, this adds greatly improved Debian and Ubuntu support to Salt!
useradd and groupadd
Support for manipulating users and groups on Unix-like systems.
moosefs
Initial support for reporting on aspects of the distributed file system, MooseFS. For more information on MooseFS please see: http://www.moosefs.org
Thanks to Joseph Hall for his work on MooseFS support.
mount
Manage mounts and the fstab.
puppet
Execute puppet on remote systems.
shadow
Manipulate and manage the user password file.
ssh
Interact with ssh keys.
New States
user and group
Support for managing users and groups in Salt States.
mount
Enforce mounts and the fstab.
New Returners
mongo_return
Send the return information to a MongoDB server.
New Runners
manage
Display minions that are up or down.