Integrate SaltStack with other applications through SALT-API(rest_cherrypy):

 I was looking for the config management / remote execution tools and found SALT-STACK which fulfills the exact needs. 

 But, when it comes to integrate with other / our custom applications we had rest_tornado, rest_wsgi and rest_cherrypy options, i must thanks to Benjamin Cane and The Reluctant Tecchie who gave me the simple and best understanding about the SALT-API(rest_cherrypy) and configuring it to allow third party services to initiate SaltStack executions.

 Well, I'm using Ubuntu server as my salt-master(single salt-master and one Minion: 'my-api-minion' connected.) so i took the apt-get method to install the package,


# apt-get install salt-api

Generating the key to create SSL Certificate.


# openssl genrsa -out /etc/ssl/private/key.pem 4096

Sign the key and generate a certificate:

# openssl req -new -x509 -key /etc/ssl/private/key.pem -out /etc/ssl/private/cert.pem -days 1826

rest_cherrypy configuration:

added below values in /etc/salt/master:

rest_cherrypy:
  host: <your host IP> or
  port: 8000
  ssl_crt: /etc/ssl/private/cert.pem
  ssl_key: /etc/ssl/private/key.pem


External Auth configuration:

external_auth:
 pam:
  <saltuser>:
   - .*


The above values were also updated in /etc/salt/master after the 'rest_cherrypy:' config, kindly make sure the '<saltuser>' available or create the user.

# service salt-master restart
# service salt-api start


We're done configuring! Let's test this with curl,

# curl -ksi https://<your host IP>:8000/
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 165
Access-Control-Expose-Headers: GET, POST
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Server: CherryPy/4.0.0
Allow: GET, HEAD, POST
Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2016 08:12:45 GMT
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Content-Type: application/json
Set-Cookie: session_id=1b1034009baa00ec797e94869215d77fd3d1b1e1; expires=Sat, 02 Jan 2016 18:12:45 GMT; Path=/

{"clients": ["_is_master_running", "local", "local_async", "local_batch", "runner", "runner_async", "ssh", "ssh_async", "wheel", "wheel_async"], "return": "Welcome"}

I got the value: "return": "Welcome",

Let try few more things,


# curl -ksi https://<your host IP>:8000 -H "Accept: application/x-yaml" -d client='local' -d tgt='my-api-minion' -d fun='test.ping'

Now you can see <title>401 Unauthorized</title>, we should create 'X-Auth-Token' using the salt-username and password to make things work !!

# curl -ksi https://<your host IP>:8000/login "Accept: application/json" -d username='saltuser' -d password='password' -d eauth='pam'

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 177
Access-Control-Expose-Headers: GET, POST
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Server: CherryPy/4.0.0
Allow: GET, HEAD, POST
Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2016 08:18:35 GMT
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
X-Auth-Token: 21d20f77641c15d64a8d5f3fd49ed2aad68076fa
Content-Type: application/json
Set-Cookie: session_id=21d20f77641c15d64a8d5f3fd49ed2aad68076fa; expires=Sat, 02 Jan 2016 18:18:35 GMT; Path=/

{"return": [{"perms": [".*"], "start": 1451722715.398141, "token": "21d20f77641c15d64a8d5f3fd49ed2aad68076fa", "expire": 1451765915.398142, "user": "saltuser", "eauth": "pam"}]}

fine, we got the token now.

# curl -ksi https://192.168.1 -H "Accept: application/x-yaml" -H "X-Auth-Token: 21d20f77641c15d64a8d5f3fd49ed2aad68076fa" -d client='local' -d tgt='my-api-minion' -d fun='test.ping'
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 30
Access-Control-Expose-Headers: GET, POST
Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Server: CherryPy/4.0.0
Allow: GET, HEAD, POST
Cache-Control: private
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2016 08:18:47 GMT
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Content-Type: application/x-yaml
Set-Cookie: session_id=21d20f77641c15d64a8d5f3fd49ed2aad68076fa; expires=Sat, 02 Jan 2016 18:18:47 GMT; Path=/

return:
- my-api-minion: true

The importent values are,

 target(tgt), function(fun) and argument(arg).


In the above command am using my minion name instead of '*' which make sure that particular minion's availability.

Using state file:

Already i have touch.sls which contain,


# cat /srv/salt/touch.sls
create_file:
 file.touch:
  - name: /salt-api-check.txt


Lemme check:

# curl -ksi https://<your host IP>:8000 -H "Allow-Control-Allow-Headers: X-Auth-Token" -H "Accept: application/x-yaml" -H "X-Auth-Token: 21d20f77641c15d64a8d5f3fd49ed2aad68076fa" -d client='local' -d tgt='my-api-minion' -d fun='state.sls' -d arg='touch'
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 311
Access-Control-Expose-Headers: GET, POST
Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Server: CherryPy/4.0.0
Allow: GET, HEAD, POST
Cache-Control: private
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2016 08:26:35 GMT
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Content-Type: application/x-yaml
Set-Cookie: session_id=21d20f77641c15d64a8d5f3fd49ed2aad68076fa; expires=Sat, 02 Jan 2016 18:26:35 GMT; Path=/

return:
- my-api-minion:
    file_|-create_file_|-/salt-api-check.txt_|-touch:
      __run_num__: 0
      changes:
        new: /salt-api-check.txt
      comment: Created empty file /salt-api-check.txt
      duration: 5.636
      name: /salt-api-check.txt
      result: true
      start_time: '13:57:56.274299'

its working.      **Don't forget to generate the new token if you restart the services.**

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