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The new "profile" Jinja statement in the upcoming Salt Magnesium release can help optimize pillar and state render times, especially when you a̶b̶u̶s̶e̶ heavily use Jinja and various map files.
https://t.co/UOMhurEL6T
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Want to see the line number in your Jinja template where an error happened?
Try the following patch: https://t.co/HeVje9Qais
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Device onboarding often requires getting initial system attributes and storing them in a CMDB. A new feature in Salt Neon allows attaching any grains to the "salt/minion/*/start/" event:
https://t.co/KyG7B5KgLf
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To emit custom warnings from states in Salt Neon, you can use the improved test.configurable_test_state:
https://t.co/fLoUyBazLO
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In Salt Neon it will be possible to monitor certificate expiration dates using the new cert_info beacon:
https://t.co/WBZtPoS9Yw
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Salt Neon will ship with the "baredoc" execution module that can show all the execution and state module functions that exist, even if they are disabled due to missing dependencies:
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PR https://t.co/YgKqNjARpU by @croldham
Sometimes it takes 6 years to fix an issue. Salt Neon will support relative pillar includes (state files supported them since 0.16.0):
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https://t.co/Ausq1iX3Yz
I don't know whether you like XML, but if you need to work with XML files, then Salt Neon can help:
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https://t.co/jVDHN4O2cQ
Did you ever have to invent a workaround in a state file to support older Salt versions? Or maybe wrote formulas that worked across Salt versions? You might find this new module in Salt Neon quite useful (please ask to backport it):
https://t.co/BRzVQ2RjQ3
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Another interesting Jinja filter in Salt Neon allows you to call object methods. Using it directly is not very practical, however in combination with the "map" filter it enables some cool tricks without resorting to Jinja loops:
https://t.co/KU66Y6EOQX
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Salt Neon will ship with the json_query Jinja filter ported from Ansible. It can help you to get rid of ugly Jinja loops and simplify data parsing (especially if you use the TOFS pattern):
https://t.co/XvIG2lMC83
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Troubleshooting TOFS-based formulas could be tricky, especially when multiple yaml/json maps are merged and filtered inside a map.jinja file. A new module in Salt Neon can help you debug these data structures:
https://t.co/vfZnm9tF15
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Have you ever put the “DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND” header into a file managed by Salt? Well, there’s a feature for that in the upcoming Salt Neon:
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Slots are also improved in Salt Neon (although it seems that community contributors care about slots a bit more than SaltStack product team). Now you can do dictionary lookups and append text to the slot result:
https://t.co/9yDMeyzZz5
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This is probably THE coolest feature (kudos to @gtmanfred and Christian McHugh!) in the upcoming Salt Neon release. It allows using any execution module in onlyif/unless requisites (at runtime, unlike Jinja):
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https://t.co/qhZW6jAyqq
https://t.co/RtNnKf1ZJv
With the upcoming Salt Neon (Aug 2019 or later) you can dramatically speed up subsequent highstate runs that install many packages. Instead of slow calls to a package manager, you can use bypass args to check if a package is there:
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https://t.co/wFUTiDC0fd
In the upcoming Salt Neon release (hopefully this year?), it will be possible to override https://t.co/Gubq5Ay7TS, cmd.wait and cmd.script retcode with zero, depending on the command output (inspired by "failed_when" from Ansible):
https://t.co/pqvfkqxmjs
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If you send any events from states, you already know that they always report changes and pollute the output. Starting with Salt Fluorine you can specify "show_changed: False" to silence the output from event.send:
https://t.co/eCst4gdGpW
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