Salt: Feature Request: salt target limit

[deuscapturus]

Feature Request

Add --limit flag to salt cli.

Many times I need of a feature to target a limited number of minions to a match. The limit could be random or not, it doesn't matter to me.

Example:

salt -G 'role:web-frontend' --limit 1 state.apply mystate test=True

[tdenny]

+1

[wes-novack]

+1

[DrMerlin]

+1

[jfindlay]

@deuscapturus, thanks for reporting. Is the intended use of this to limit the output of test=True? I could see how it might be useful for sys.doc as well.

[deuscapturus]

I also have a database schema management state that only needs to be run on a single minion to bring all minions to the proper state. Any state that affects a shared resource could benefit from this feature.

[cachedout]

This is already implemented. See the --subset flag to the salt command.