Is there any way to call only one rule within a SaltStack state?

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I have a state called service.sls within an "elasticsearch" directory. I could call the entire state via salt-call state.sls elasticsearch.service but I'd only like to trigger one rule within that state.

Context: the config is file.managed and has been changed but I'd like to manually do the restart that the state would trigger.

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 08 '15 at 00:16

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You can do salt-call state.high and specify the individual rule that you want from the file directly on the command line.

answered Apr 08 '15 at 00:16

Jeff Ferland

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 13 '15 at 09:29

Although there is an exclude parameter to most state functions, there isn't an inclue. You could however exclude all other state ids to only execute the "rule" you want:

salt-call state.sls elasticsearch.service exclude="[{'id': 'id_to_exclude'}, {'id': 'id_to_also_exclude'}]"

Is there any way to call only one rule within a SaltStack state?

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