Understanding map files

[bradawk1]

We have a salt state for tigervnc server on RHEL 8 & 9. I don't like how it is set up because the vncserver.users and /etc/systemd/system/'vncserver@:2.service' are all explicitly defined in the salt state. I was thinking we could put the user and port list in a map file and then create from that. However, I'm not sure I understand the map syntax correctly.

FYI, the vncserver.users file looks like:

:2=sid1 :3=sid2 :17=sid3

and for every number in the above file, you create in /etc/systemd/system a systemd start script named:

'vncserver@:2.service'

for example. I want to remove the association of port numbers and sids from the state file. If anyone has suggestions, I'd love to hear it

[bdrx312]

You can just create a users.yaml file and import it with import_yaml

users.yaml:

2: sid1
3: sid2
17: sid3

# import your yaml data ...
{% import_yaml "users.yaml" as users %}

# now you can use it something like...
{%- for port, sid in users.items() %}
"/etc/systemd/system/vncserver@:{{ port }}.service"
  file.managed:
     - user: root
     - group: root
     - mode: '0644'
     - source: "salt://{{ tpldir }}/etc/systemd/system/vncserver.service.j2"
     - template: jinja
     - context:
         sid: "{{ sid }}"  
{% endfor %}

[bradawk1]

Thanks! I will give that a try!

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