SaltStack: Push single change, not all

Question

I have a server which was managed by hand before. We want to manage this server with saltstack in the future.

I run this to see what you current salt formular would do:

salt-ssh remote-host state.sls webserver test=True

There are several changes.

I would like to push (apply) some of the changes, but not all.

For example I see the output of this, and I would like to apply this, but no other change should get applied:

      ID: server.conf
Function: file.managed
    Name: /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/server.conf
  Result: None
 Comment: The file /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/server.conf is set to be changed
 Changes:   
          ----------
          diff:
              --- 
              +++ 
              @@ -13,43 +13,17 @@

              - old_stuff
              + new_stuff

Is there a way to do this?

ProT-0-TypE · Accepted Answer · 2017-11-29T15:50:04.690

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salt.sls_id is in theory what you're looking for. It works for salt master/minion and masterless but I've just noticed it doesn't work with salt-ssh

EDIT: see Issue #44733

EDIT2: it's coming in 2017.7.3!

edited Nov 29 '17 at 15:50

answered Nov 29 '17 at 15:27

ProT-0-TypE

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Sad, this one (sls_id) looked close to a great solution. Thank you - – guettli Nov 29 '17 at 15:30
rmarchei at github is you? Thank you very much! – guettli Nov 30 '17 at 15:05
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yeah that was me! – ProT-0-TypE Dec 01 '17 at 15:08

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 27 '17 at 09:24

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You can create a individual sls (here my-change.sls) file for the change and just call it: salt remote-host state.apply my-change test=true

answered Nov 27 '17 at 09:24

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SaltStack: Push single change, not all

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