Salt Open: Automating Your Enterprise and Your Network

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A. MallettSalt Openhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7237-4_4

4. Targeting Salt Minions

Andrew Mallett¹  

(1)

Peterborough, UK

 

Running the command salt from the command line of the Salt Master, we are required to target the Salt Minions, or more simply, we have to specify the Salt Minions that should execute the specified module and function. In the examples we have seen so far, we have not gone into many details or filtered on the Salt Minions. Using the ‘*’ as our point of aim, we are targeting using “globbing” all Salt Minions. The method of “globbing ” is the default using the Minion ID or part thereof as the target. The asterisk metacharacter used on ...