Can saltstack update it self then highstate?

Question

Salt stack is being used with bit bucket. There are 2-3 of us who push updates to it occasionaly. I was wondering is there a way where salt stack can get the latest changes from bit bucket then highstate? If so, how would you go about doing it?

Answer 1

Set up a webhook in BitBucket to call salt-api to do a salt-run fileserver.update followed by a state.highstate.

Answer 2

What you are looking for is the hgfs backend. whenever a state.highstate is called, the master will pull from bitbucket and send it to the minion. A basic configuration would be the following:

fileserver_backend:
  - hg

hgfs_remotes:
  - https://self@bitbucket.org/self/salt

hgfs_branch_method: branches

There is unfortuntaley a lack of documentation about how to configure hgfs so doing anything more advance may require you to dig around. Good luck.

Note for future readers: I am not sure whether the minion or the master pulls from bitbucket.