Packaging

I have been using salt for quite a while (oldest commit in my personal salt states repo is 2010), but have usually taken the old approach to distributing modules. By setting the file_roots you can automatically sync all your modules with the saltutil.sync_all command.

file_roots:
  base:
    - /srv/salt
    - /srv/salt-kafka
    - /srv/salt-forgejo

With our file_roots defined, our plugin repo looks like this

tree /srv/salt-kafka
├── LICENSE
├── README.md
└── _engines
    └── kafka_consumer.py

This is useful, but for maintainability, I finally sat down to look at how to package things up more properly.