Chapter 2. Writing Advanced Salt Configurations

In this chapter, you will cover:

• Writing and retrieving pillar data
• Using pillar data in states
• Using grains in states
• Using conditionals in states and pillars
• Using Python functions in conditionals
• Using iterations in states
• Setting and using variables in states
• Testing a state run before applying to minions
• Configuring nodegroups
• Targeting minions