I have a Salt formula that runs on my minions, and it runs a custom module that reaches out to the web for some JSON data for the latest version of chrome. It works great, but I thought it would be better to run it as a runner on the master and store it as pillar data for the minions to access. That way I don't have hundreds of minions querying the web unnecessarily vs just once on the master.
I'm not finding anything helpful online. Is it even possible?
def latest():
import json
import urllib.request
url = 'https://omahaproxy.appspot.com/all.json'
resp = urllib.request.urlopen(url)
data = json.loads(resp.read())
for each in data:
if each.get("os") == "win":
versions = each.get("versions")
for version in versions:
if version.get("channel") == "stable":
latest = (version.get("current_version"))
return latest
I can run it as is in /etc/salt/_modules, as well as a runner in /etc/salt/_runners on the master.
