salt.tops.ext_nodes

External Nodes Classifier

The External Nodes Classifier is a master tops subsystem that retrieves mapping information from major configuration management systems. One of the most common external nodes classifiers system is provided by Cobbler and is called cobbler-ext-nodes.

The cobbler-ext-nodes command can be used with this configuration:

master_tops:
  ext_nodes: cobbler-ext-nodes

It is noteworthy that the Salt system does not directly ingest the data sent from the cobbler-ext-nodes command, but converts the data into information that is used by a Salt top file.

Any command can replace the call to 'cobbler-ext-nodes' above, but currently the data must be formatted in the same way that the standard 'cobbler-ext-nodes' does.

See (admittedly degenerate and probably not complete) example:

``` classes:

  • basepackages
  • database

```

The above essentially is the same as a top.sls containing

``` base:

'*':
  • basepackages
  • database
salt.tops.ext_nodes.top(**kwargs)

Run the command configured

Current Salt release: 2014.1.6

Docs for previous releases on salt.rtfd.org.

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