Manages configuration files via augeas
This module requires the augeas Python module.
Warning
Minimal installations of Debian and Ubuntu have been seen to have packaging bugs with python-augeas, causing the augeas module to fail to import. If the minion has the augeas module installed, but the functions in this execution module fail to run due to being unavailable, first restart the salt-minion service. If the problem persists past that, the following command can be run from the master to determine what is causing the import to fail:
salt minion-id cmd.run 'python -c "from augeas import Augeas"'
For affected Debian/Ubuntu hosts, installing libpython2.7 has been known to resolve the issue.
Get a value for a specific augeas path
CLI Example:
salt '*' augeas.get /files/etc/hosts/1/ ipaddr
List the direct children of a node
CLI Example:
salt '*' augeas.ls /files/etc/passwd
Get matches for path expression
CLI Example:
salt '*' augeas.match /files/etc/services/service-name ssh
Get matches for path expression
CLI Example:
salt '*' augeas.remove /files/etc/sysctl.conf/net.ipv4.conf.all.log_martians
Set a value for a specific augeas path
CLI Example:
salt '*' augeas.setvalue /files/etc/hosts/1/canonical localhost
This will set the first entry in /etc/hosts to localhost
CLI Example:
salt '*' augeas.setvalue /files/etc/hosts/01/ipaddr 192.168.1.1 \
/files/etc/hosts/01/canonical test
Adds a new host to /etc/hosts the ip address 192.168.1.1 and hostname test
CLI Example:
salt '*' augeas.setvalue prefix=/files/etc/sudoers/ \
"spec[user = '%wheel']/user" "%wheel" \
"spec[user = '%wheel']/host_group/host" 'ALL' \
"spec[user = '%wheel']/host_group/command[1]" 'ALL' \
"spec[user = '%wheel']/host_group/command[1]/tag" 'PASSWD' \
"spec[user = '%wheel']/host_group/command[2]" '/usr/bin/apt-get' \
"spec[user = '%wheel']/host_group/command[2]/tag" NOPASSWD
Ensures that the following line is present in /etc/sudoers:
%wheel ALL = PASSWD : ALL , NOPASSWD : /usr/bin/apt-get , /usr/bin/aptitude
Returns recursively the complete tree of a node
CLI Example:
salt '*' augeas.tree /files/etc/
Current Salt release: 2014.1.6
Docs for previous releases on salt.rtfd.org.