How to run state.highstate within states?

[albdv]

I was trying to understand how to run state.highstate within state by using Salt States Module and it is not very clear for me how I could pass the target minion in that case.

[sjorge]

If I understand the docs correctly, this will execute a salt module call on the minion the state gets applied to.

[jfindlay]

@Beastea, you can do this like this:

run_highstate:
  module.run:
    - name: state.highstate

[albdv]

@jfindlay but how can I specify the minion as a target then?

[jfindlay]

@Beastea that logic is usually handled by the process initiating the state run, like the CLI, for example.

salt 'targeted-minions-*' state.apply highstate

Can you give more context on what you're trying to do? You may want to use a runner or a reactor instead.

[albdv]

@jfindlay thank you to clarify this moment. Now everything clear for me. Issue might be closed now. Thanks a lot once more.

[jfindlay]

@Beastea, no problem. Be sure to ask more questions if you have them.