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Salt Masterless Provisioner

Type: salt-masterless

The salt-masterless Packer provisioner provisions machines built by Packer using Salt states, without connecting to a Salt master.

Basic Example

The example below is fully functional.

{
  "type": "salt-masterless",
  "local_state_tree": "/Users/me/salt"
}

Configuration Reference

The reference of available configuration options is listed below. The only required argument is the path to your local salt state tree.

Optional:

• bootstrap_args (string) - Arguments to send to the bootstrap script. Usage is somewhat documented on github, but the script itself has more detailed usage instructions. By default, no arguments are sent to the script.

• disable_sudo (boolean) - By default, the bootstrap install command is prefixed with sudo. When using a Docker builder, you will likely want to pass true since sudo is often not pre-installed.

• remote_pillar_roots (string) - The path to your remote pillar roots. default: /srv/pillar. This option cannot be used with minion_config.

• remote_state_tree (string) - The path to your remote state tree. default: /srv/salt. This option cannot be used with minion_config.

• local_pillar_roots (string) - The path to your local pillar roots. This will be uploaded to the remote_pillar_roots on the remote.

• local_state_tree (string) - The path to your local state tree. This will be uploaded to the remote_state_tree on the remote.

• custom_state (string) - A state to be run instead of state.highstate. Defaults to state.highstate if unspecified.

• minion_config (string) - The path to your local minion config file. This will be uploaded to the /etc/salt on the remote. This option overrides the remote_state_tree or remote_pillar_roots options.

• skip_bootstrap (boolean) - By default the salt provisioner runs salt bootstrap to install salt. Set this to true to skip this step.

• temp_config_dir (string) - Where your local state tree will be copied before moving to the /srv/salt directory. Default is /tmp/salt.

• no_exit_on_failure (boolean) - Packer will exit if the salt-call command fails. Set this option to true to ignore Salt failures.

• log_level (string) - Set the logging level for the salt-call run.