Salt: set dependency of a whole sls

[wenxin-wang]

Is it possible to set a state as requirement of a sls file, so that this state is essentially required by all states in that file? I can do this with require in a puppet class, but I don't know how to do that with salt.
Thank you!

[The-Loeki]

https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/states/requisites.html#require-an-entire-sls-file ?

[wenxin-wang]

Sorry for not being clear, the document shows how to set a sls file as a requirement of a single state, I meant to set a state as a requirement of a sls file.
For example, say if I have a sls with a bunch of states in it, and I want to set all of them to depend on one state. Since currently it is not possible to use sls in a require_in statement of that state (#22852), I was wondering if there's a way to do a require in a sls file (not in every state in it).

[vutny]

Maybe you should look at the Salt orchestration capabilities: https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/tutorials/states_pt5.html#orchestrate-runner

In very simple case without complex requirements between sls files, writing your main.sls like this:

include:
  - dependent

main-state:
  test.succeed_without_changes: []

will implicitly instruct Salt to run all states from dependent.sls before any state in main.sls.
This is a core concept: https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/states/compiler_ordering.html#ordering-layers

[wenxin-wang]

Thank you, I'll definitely take a look.

[twellspring]

I am facing the same issue as wenxin-wang. By default all states in an include run before the states in the file. I want the states in an include to run after a particular state in the file. So to rewrite the example:

#file: dependent.sls
dependent1:
  test.succeed_with_changes: []

dependent2:
  test.succeed_with_changes: []

and

#file: main-state.sls
include:
  - dependent

main-state:
  test.succeed_with_changes: []
    - require-in: 
      - sls:  dependent

The require-in does not currently work with sls, but if it did then the ordering for above would be

main-state
dependent1
dependent2

Which is what we are looking for.

I looked at orchestrate and that is doable, but it seems much overkill for a simple dependency on one server.

My current workaround for this is to use order: 1 on the main-state, but the require-in sls seems a better solution than having to use an order.

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