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Execute Shell for Salt in Jenkins with inconsistent results

I am trying to execute a shell command from Jenkins to do a Salt call. I am able to get the command to work without having parameters in.

#!/bin/sh
sudo salt '*' test.ping

but when I execute with a parameter I get an error:

[TestUpgrade] $ /bin/sh /tmp/hudson6841559319172934172.sh ERROR: No return received No minions matched the target. No command was sent, no jid was assigned. Build step 'Execute shell' marked build as failure

The command looks like this:

#!/bin/sh
sudo salt $Minion_Group test.ping

I am trying to insert '*' as the string parameter. When I echo the command, everything looks good.

Any ideas?

Solution

  • I expect this is a quotation issue.

    Salt doesn't interpret asterisk as a wildcard, instead, it tries to find '*' minion id. And you cannot remove single quotes as it would lead to wildcard expanding before salt command is run.

    Try to set $Minion_Group to * and temporary disable glob expanding: 

    #!/bin/sh
set -f
sudo salt ${Minion_Group} test.ping
set +f