A simple Dockerfile to setup a salt-minion for dry-run testing of Salt states. This is nice for sanity checking formatting before pushing to a live server.
You can either download the image via docker pull ipmb/salt-minion or build it
from the Dockerfile with docker build -t salt-minion .
The included shell script can be used to run a test highstate. It will use the states and pillars from your local filesystem and run the minion masterless.
It uses environment variables for configuration:
STATES=/path/to/my/states PILLAR=/path/to/my/pillar ./test.sh
If you'd like, you can also specify a directory to use for config in place of
/etc/salt. This is helpful if you want to override the minion's default
configuration.
STATES=/path/to/my/states PILLAR=/path/to/my/pillar CONFIG=/path/to/my/config ./test.sh
In /path/to/my/config/minion you could have something like this:
file_client: local
test: True
log_level: warning
state_output: mixed
id: myserver.example.com