Given a node id or matcher, is there a way to determine what state files will be pushed on a state.highstate - without actually running them? i.e. like a dry run.
I have a lot of templating going on in my state files and would like to see what would actually be affected before committing to a run.
You can see what states are being applied by top to a given set of servers with salt $MATCHER state.show_top.
You can do a dry run with salt $MATCHER state.highstate test=True (case sensitive). I don't entirely trust it; sometimes it claims something should get changed, but when I run a real highstate, it turns up clean. I have never had the opposite occur, thankfully.