Incorporating external data sources
We've taken care of Salt keys, but we have some other directories that we need to distribute among the masters. Let's start with a component that is used every time you issue a command from the master to one or more minions: the job cache.
The external job cache
Before we dive into this component, let's review the master job cache:
- When a command is issued, a job ID (JID) is created on the master.
- Information about that job is stored in the job cache, such as what the command and its arguments are and which minions will be affected.
- The job data is posted to the message queue, where the affected minions pick it up and perform the requested work.
- When each minion finishes the task, it sends the return data back to ...
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