This process allows you to integrate a Saltstack environment in Spacewalk.

• Automatic registration of (accepted) minions in Spacewalk
• (WIP) Integration of a (minimal) part of the minion hardware inventory in Spacewalk
• (WIP) Integration of the software inventory of the minion in Spacewalk
• Integration of Salt jobs into the event history and synchronization of the action status and results

• Events happening when the reactor is down will not be recorded
• Initiating actions from the Spacewalk user interface require additional changes in Spacewalk, which are also being done as part of the concept, but are not part of the reactor. (incl. a Java library to interact with salt-api)

• Run the salt-master on the Spacewalk server

• Setup pillar data so set the default admin user and activation key for salt minions. Put the following data in /srv/pillar

top.sls

base:
  '*':
    - data

data.sls

spacewalk-activation-key: 1-salt-testing
spacewalk-admin-user: admin

and refresh the pillar data

$ salt '*' saltutil.refresh_pillar

This gives the same admin user and key for all minions. You can change top.sls to match different minion names or grains.

• Some patches to Spacewalk to introduce a SaltJob Action type. If you use Spacewalk upstream you will need to apply these: https://gist.github.com/dmacvicar/a53e3cf972d0583ed1f0

• Run salt-api locally in the Spacewalk so that the webapp can interact with it

The reactor reads events from the master in a loop. It reacts to the following events.

• minon_start

When a minion starts, it will be registered with Spacwalk if it is not already registered. A refresh of the software inventory and hardware will be done

• tag salt/job/$jobid/new

If the job was not created by the reactor itself (like hardware refresh), an action will be created, of type SaltJob

• tag salt/job/$jobid/ret/$minion

When an action is returned, if it was not created by the reactor itself, the status will be updated.

See https://github.com/SUSE/spacewalk-saltstack/issues

The Spacewalk Salt reactor was developed by the SUSE Manager team during Hackweek 11 https://hackweek.suse.com/11/projects/514

MIT