Documentation doesn't clearly explain how to create a custom salt state.

[raulillo82]

https://documentation.suse.com/suma/4.3/en/suse-manager/specialized-guides/salt/salt-custom-states.html
(applies to the similar url for Uyuni).

Following the procedure didn't allow to run a custom salt state.

[vzhestkov]

Not sure if I understand right what you mean. What did you try to do?

[raulillo82]

Most of my knowledge of salt (or at least what it is needed to create a custom state) is forgotten. As I needed to test one quickly, I tried to follow the steps in this documentation, but it ended with errors. Will try to post more after hackweek.

[juliogonzalez]

@vzhestkov TBH, I was not able to understand it either.

At step 6 there is:

In the SLS Contents field, type the contents of your init.sls state. If you want to reference file templates in this configuration channel, ensure your file starts by specifying the source of the managed file, using this syntax:

As we didn't want any file templates, we just wrote:

file.managed:
  - name: /tmp/blah
  - content:
    - blah

But that didn't work, the highstate crashed.

I hope @raulillo82 can still provide the error. I don't have it.

[keichwa]

Can one of you provide positive feedback? @raulillo82 or @vzhestkov .

[vzhestkov]

For me it was not clear what was the problem @raulillo82 found, I would check first what was the error. The documentation section looks fine for me, but the customers always complain that it's not clear what should they write as a state. Not sure how to give the proper answer for it: any valid state will work :-)

[0rnela]

@raulillo82 -- can you please confirm if this is still an issue?

[raulillo82]

I'm afraid I can't follow up on this, should I have something more detailed about this, I'll come back but meanwhile feel free to close it.

[0rnela]

Closing as per previous comment.