Salt Provisioner

[mpoore]

Description

The Salt Packer provisioner executes Salt's "masterless" or "local" mode on the guest operating system of the image that Packer is building.
Salt state files that exist on the guest operating system are used to customize the image to meet a defined desired state. This means the Salt Minion package must be installed on the guest operating system. State files can be uploaded from your local build machine (the one running Packer) by this plugin.
https://github.com/mpoore/packer-plugin-salt

Integration Tier

Community

Checklist

• [ Y ] Has valid metadata.hcl file in plugin repository.
• [ Y ] Has added integration scripts packer-plugin-scaffolding to plugin repository.
• [ Y ] Has added top-level integration README.md file to plugin docs directory.
• [ Y ] All plugins components have one README.md describing their usage.
• [ Y ] Has a fully synced .web-docs directory ready for publishing to the integrations portal.

[nywilken]

Hi @mpoore thanks for opening up this integration requisition. We've had folks interested in an updated Salt Provider. I am glad to see you take over the plugin, thank you.

I took a Quick Look at the documentation for your integration. The main README L33 needs a link to the provisioner page. Specifically

- [salt](https://developer.hashicorp.com/packer/integrations/mpoore/salt/latest/components/provisioner/salt) - The Packer provisioner will transfer Salt state files to the target guest operating system and execute `Salt` to apply the configured desired state.

I also didn't see the action for notifying the upstream Packer documentation API with updates. If you've copied them and I just can see them that's okay. But if you haven't already I suggest you add the notify-integration-* workflows from here to your project repository.

I've opened a PR internally to register your plugin, once that is merged I will circle back and let you know it is okay to run the manual notification job to ingest the first round of plugin docs.

[mpoore]

Hi @nywilken,

Thank you for reviewing this. I've updated the link in the documentation and also added the two workflows required. Let me know if there's anything else that needs attention.

Thank you again!

[nywilken]

Thanks for the quick action @mpoore. The upstream PR to enable the integration has been merged. Can you please trigger a manual notification workflow for your plugin using 0.1.2 as the version and main as the branch.

If the job will notify our API to ingest the plugin docs. It will take about 15 minutes to rebuild and clear the cache but if there are no errors reported all should appear as expected. I'll keep this issue open until we've confirmed the plugin is listed as an integration.

[mpoore]

Thank you, @nywilken. That completed successfully. I'll check back in a little while :-)

[nywilken]

Thanks for pushing this integration forward. Closing this issue as the Salt provisioner integration is now live at https://developer.hashicorp.com/packer/integrations/mpoore/salt

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