Unable to install & use your formulas

[mcassuto]

Hi @bechtoldt ,

thx for these formuals !
Could you provide some guidances on how to use them:

1/ unable to find the logstash state unless I rename the state directory to logstash

2/ unable to get salt to know about formhelper; I get the error:
"Rendering SLS 'base:logstash' failed: Jinja variable 'LazyLoader' object has no attribute 'formhelper.get_defaults' "

Here my salt config:
gitfs_remotes:

• file:///srv/formulas/bechtoldt-utils # git-cloned https://github.com/bechtoldt/salt-modules

file_roots:
base:
- /srv/salt
- /srv/formulas/fail2ban
- /srv/formulas/postgres-formula
- /srv/formulas/elasticsearch-formula
- /srv/formulas/kibana-formula
- /srv/formulas/logstash-formula

Thanks a lot,
Marc

[mcassuto]

@bechtoldt just for the record : his there an easy way to get it work quickly rather than waiting for the documentation enhancement ?

[arnisoph]

@mcassuto read arnisoph/saltstack-sysctl-formula#1 :)

[mcassuto]

for the records (any who will may encounter this issue), I ended up by renaming the states directory.
and in my /etc/salt/master:
file_roots:
base:
- /srv/salt
- /srv/formulas/elasticsearch-formula
- /srv/formulas/kibana-formula
- /srv/formulas/logstash-formula
- /srv/formulas/rsyslog-formula
- /srv/formulas/bechtoldt-utils

@bechtoldt : I still get the error
"Rendering SLS 'base:logstash' failed: Jinja variable 'LazyLoader' object has no attribute 'formhelper.get_defaults' "

What am I doing wrong ? (this was not cover in the other thread)

[arnisoph]

@mcassuto You need to make the directory _modules/ (from https://github.com/bechtoldt/salt-modules) available to Salt. Use Gitfs to mount the Git repository.

[mcassuto]

Still no chance:

• update saltstack to the very last version
• gitfs setup and repo added in gitfs_remotes
• tried also to clone the repo and add the directory into file_roots: base:
• tried also to simply copy the _modules in the main file_root

restarted salt-master each time.... any idea ?

[arnisoph]

The Salt Package Manager might be a solution for this issue in the future. I think it's still in a very early state. I'll file some feature requests.. :)

saltstack/salt#24896 (PR)
saltstack/salt#25210
saltstack/salt#25211

https://docs.saltstack.com/en/develop/topics/spm/