README.rst

template-formula

A SaltStack formula that is empty. It has dummy content to help with a quick start on a new formula and it serves as a style guide.

Table of Contents

• General notes
• Contributing to this repo
• Available states
• Testing

General notes

See the full SaltStack Formulas installation and usage instructions.

If you are interested in writing or contributing to formulas, please pay attention to the Writing Formula Section.

If you want to use this formula, please pay attention to the FORMULA file and/or git tag, which contains the currently released version. This formula is versioned according to Semantic Versioning.

See Formula Versioning Section for more details.

Contributing to this repo

Commit message formatting is significant!!

Please see :ref:`How to contribute <CONTRIBUTING>` for more details.

Available states

• template
• template.package
• template.config
• template.service
• template.clean
• template.service.clean
• template.config.clean
• template.package.clean

template

Meta-state (This is a state that includes other states).

This installs the template package, manages the template configuration file and then starts the associated template service.

template.package

This state will install the template package only.

template.config

This state will configure the template service and has a dependency on template.install via include list.

template.service

This state will start the template service and has a dependency on template.config via include list.

template.clean

Meta-state (This is a state that includes other states).

this state will undo everything performed in the template meta-state in reverse order, i.e. stops the service, removes the configuration file and then uninstalls the package.

template.service.clean

This state will stop the template service and disable it at boot time.

template.config.clean

This state will remove the configuration of the template service and has a dependency on template.service.clean via include list.

template.package.clean

This state will remove the template package and has a depency on template.config.clean via include list.

Testing

Linux testing is done with kitchen-salt.

Requirements

• Ruby
• Docker

$ gem install bundler
$ bundle install
$ bin/kitchen test [platform]

Where [platform] is the platform name defined in kitchen.yml, e.g. debian-9-2019-2-py3.

bin/kitchen converge

Creates the docker instance and runs the template main state, ready for testing.

bin/kitchen verify

Runs the inspec tests on the actual instance.

bin/kitchen destroy

Removes the docker instance.

bin/kitchen test

Runs all of the stages above in one go: i.e. destroy + converge + verify + destroy.

bin/kitchen login

Gives you SSH access to the instance for manual testing.