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Salt 0.11.0 Release Notes
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:release: 2012-12-14
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Salt 0.11.0 is here, with some highly sought after and exciting features.
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These features include the new overstate system, the reactor system, a new
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state run scope component called __context__, the beginning of the search
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system (still needs a great deal of work), multiple package states, the MySQL
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returner and a better system to arbitrarily reference outputters.
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It is also noteworthy that we are changing how we mark release numbers. For the
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life of the project we have been pushing every release with features and fixes
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as point releases. We will now be releasing point releases for only bug fixes
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on a more regular basis and major feature releases on a slightly less regular
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basis. This means that the next release will be a bugfix only release with a
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version number of 0.11.1. The next feature release will be named 0.12.0 and
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will mark the end of life for the 0.11 series.
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Major Features
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==============
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OverState
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---------
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The overstate system is a simple way to manage rolling state executions across
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many minions. The overstate allows for a state to depend on the successful
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completion of another state.
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Reactor System
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--------------
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The new reactor system allows for a reactive logic engine to be created which
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can respond to events within a salted environment. The reactor system uses sls
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files to match events fired on the master with actions, enabling Salt
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to react to problems in an infrastructure.
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Your load-balanced group of webservers is under extra load? Spin up a new VM
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and add it to the group. Your fileserver is filling up? Send a notification to
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your sysadmin on call. The possibilities are endless!
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Module Context
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--------------
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A new component has been added to the module loader system. The module context
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is a data structure that can hold objects for a given scope within the module.
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This allows for components that are initialized to be stored in a persistent
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context which can greatly speed up ongoing connections. Right now the best
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example can be found in the `cp` execution module.
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Multiple Package Management
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A long desired feature has been added to package management. By definition Salt
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States have always installed packages one at a time. On most platforms this is
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not the fastest way to install packages. Erik Johnson, aka terminalmage, has
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modified the package modules for many providers and added new capabilities to
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install groups of packages. These package groups can be defined as a list of
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packages available in repository servers:
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.. code-block:: yaml
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python_pkgs:
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pkg.installed:
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- pkgs:
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- python-mako
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- whoosh
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- python-git
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or specify based on the location of specific packages:
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.. code-block:: yaml
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python_pkgs:
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pkg.installed:
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- sources:
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- python-mako: http://some-rpms.org/python-mako.rpm
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- whoosh: salt://whoosh/whoosh.rpm
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- python-git: ftp://companyserver.net/python-git.rpm
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Search System
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-------------
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The bones to the search system have been added. This is a very basic interface
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that allows for search backends to be added as search modules. The first
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supported search module is the whoosh search backend. Right now only the basic
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paths for the search system are in place, making this very experimental.
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Further development will involve improving the search routines and index
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routines for whoosh and other search backends.
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The search system has been made to allow for searching through all of the state
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and pillar files, configuration files and all return data from minion
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executions.
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Notable Changes
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===============
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All previous versions of Salt have shared many directories between the master
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and minion. The default locations for keys, cached data and sockets has been
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shared by master and minion. This has created serious problems with running a
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master and a minion on the same systems. 0.11.0 changes the defaults to be
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separate directories. Salt will also attempt to migrate all of the old key data
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into the correct new directories, but if it is not successful it may need to be
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done manually. If your keys exhibit issues after updating make sure that they
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have been moved from ``/etc/salt/pki`` to ``/etc/salt/pki/{master,minion}``.
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The old setup will look like this:
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.. code-block:: raw
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/etc/salt/pki
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|-- master.pem
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|-- master.pub
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|-- minions
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| `-- ragnarok.saltstack.net
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|-- minions_pre
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|-- minion.pem
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|-- minion.pub
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|-- minion_master.pub
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|-- minions_pre
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`-- minions_rejected
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With the accepted minion keys in ``/etc/salt/pki/minions``, the new setup
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places the accepted minion keys in ``/etc/salt/pki/master/minions``.
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.. code-block:: raw
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/etc/salt/pki
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|-- master
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| |-- master.pem
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| |-- master.pub
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| |-- minions
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| | `-- ragnarok.saltstack.net
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| |-- minions_pre
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| `-- minions_rejected
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|-- minion
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| |-- minion.pem
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| |-- minion.pub
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| `-- minion_master.pub |