Extending SaltStack

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "If there is no __virtual__() function, then the module will always be available on every system."

A block of code is set as follows:

''' This module should be saved as salt/modules/mysqltest.py ''' __virtualname__ = 'mysqltest' def __virtual__(): ''' For now, just return the __virtualname__ ''' return __virtualname__ def ping(): ''' Returns True CLI Example: salt '*' mysqltest.ping ''' return True ...