Senario

• We want to install zabbix server on salt master
• Install apache on another server
• Install nginx on another serever
• Use apache as virtual host and nginx as reverse proxy
• Install zabbix agent on all minions
• Install mysql on a specific server and use it from others(grant to list of minions)
• Install mysql client on list of minions
• Be able to install php on desire server and lots of requirments that we did them in a single command as below

salt '*' state.apply pillar='{"remote": ["every minion who wants connect remotely", "minion_php","minion_zabbix"],"remote_db": "minion_database","zabbix_server": "minion_zabbix","proxy": "minion_apache"}' saltenv=base

When we want to apply all tasks that wrote on top file use apply. Actually we passed a dictionary that contain remote servers which will access to database and set name of minion that is used as database or zabbix-server. We also set proxy as a server which we read virtual hosts content from there.

Enviroment

We changed enviroment because we need another layer that affects on all minions so we add new directory and add these lines to /etc/salt/master

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dev: - /srv/salt/dev

Now we use another enviroment and delete all we installed before by this

salt '*' state.highstate saltenv=dev

We can replace * with special minion name and delete whatever installed on that server