systemd-formula

Formula to set up and configure systemd including

• units
• networkd
• timesyncd
• resolved
• journald

Table of Contents

• General notes
• Contributing to this repo
• General customization strategies
• Available states
  • systemd
  • systemd.journald
  • systemd.timesyncd
  • systemd.timesyncd.config
  • systemd.networkd
  • systemd.networkd.profiles
  • systemd.resolved
  • systemd.resolved.config
  • systemd.units
• Testing
  • Requirements
  • bin/kitchen converge
  • bin/kitchen verify
  • bin/kitchen destroy
  • bin/kitchen test
  • bin/kitchen login

General notes

See the full SaltStack Formulas installation and usage instructions.

If you are interested in writing or contributing to formulas, please pay attention to the Writing Formula Section.

If you want to use this formula, please pay attention to the FORMULA file and/or git tag, which contains the currently released version. This formula is versioned according to Semantic Versioning.

See Formula Versioning Section for more details.

Contributing to this repo

Commit message formatting is significant!!

Please see How to contribute for more details.

General customization strategies

Because systemd config files aren't easy to recreate in jinja based on multiple keys and different needs, I'm using TOFS.

Template Override and Files Switch (TOFS) pattern as described in the documentation file TOFS_pattern.md.

Note

See the full Salt Formulas doc.

Available states

• systemd
• systemd.journald
• systemd.timesyncd
• systemd.timesyncd.config
• systemd.networkd
• systemd.networkd.profiles
• systemd.resolved
• systemd.resolved.config
• systemd.units

systemd

Installs the systemd packages and libraries.

systemd.journald

This state manages systemd-journald configuration

systemd.timesyncd

This state installs systemd-timesyncd and configures both NTP and timezone

systemd.timesyncd.config

This state installs systemd-timesyncd and adds the timesyncd.conf from pillar (see pillar.example)

systemd.networkd

This state installs systemd-networkd and recursively adds files per os_family/minion_id

systemd.networkd.profiles

This state installs systemd-networkd profile files from pillar (see pillar.example)

systemd.resolved

This state installs systemd-resolved and recursively adds files per os_family/minion_id

systemd.resolved.config

This state installs systemd-resolved and adds the resolved.conf from pillar (see pillar.example)

systemd.units

This formula provides a state to configure systemd units

Testing

Linux testing is done with kitchen-salt.

Requirements

• Ruby
• Docker

$ gem install bundler
$ bundle install
$ bin/kitchen test [platform]

Where [platform] is the platform name defined in kitchen.yml, e.g. debian-9-2019-2-py3.

bin/kitchen converge

Creates the docker instance and runs the systemd main state, ready for testing.

bin/kitchen verify

Runs the inspec tests on the actual instance.

bin/kitchen destroy

Removes the docker instance.

bin/kitchen test

Runs all of the stages above in one go: i.e. destroy + converge + verify + destroy.

bin/kitchen login

Gives you SSH access to the instance for manual testing.