I have been using salt for a year to manage 30 laptops. It has worked well and once everything was set up properly did not require any significant maintenance. The laptops run Linux Mint 21.1 and I want to upgrade them to 21.3. There are ways to upgrade manually by logging onto each laptop and executing a series of commands. However, doing that for each of 30 laptops would be a significant task. I was wondering if there is a way to update the OS (i.e., 21.1 -> 21.3) on each laptop using salt? If anyone can point me in the right direction, I would appreciate it.

I would like to share the output of a command from one node to the other on running salt "*" state.apply.

I’ve defined a pkgrepo.managed state in my salt files. On every run of salt, it is adding an additional – and identical – line in the sources.list.d directory, resulting in an apt error. A google found another post with the same situation, but no solution.

I’m a little unclear as to why this error showed up. Loading users from pillar was working previously. I renamed a module from ‘base’ to ‘common’ to avoid confusion with the ‘base’ state in salt, and then this error appeared.

I’m currently using the ec2_tags.py grain to expose tags to salt. Once run, it does not seem to update when tags on the instance change. Do I need to force salt to refresh? If so how?