Using requisites
In infrastructure management, almost all the time, we have situations where we need a task to happen only if another condition is true. This is achieved by creating dependencies between definitions. In Salt, these dependencies are known as requisites, and in this recipe, you will learn about how to use them.
How to do it...
We will use the same minion as the previous recipe.
- Create a new state called
ntp
by creating a directory calledntp
in the base directory of the staging environment, and then create a directory calledfiles
in thentp
state directory. - Create a file called
init.sls
in thentp
state directory and edit it to have the following entries:ntp_package: pkg.installed: - name: ntp ntp_conf_file: file.managed:patch antenna ...
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