Hi all,
I’m new to salt - I’m confused with respect to the naming of the top file.
Some guides use ‘file_name.top’ whereas others use ‘top.sls’.
Is this just a convention? If so what are the best practices?
top.sls is the name given to a “top file”, a Salt configuration file whose purpose is to gather many other Salt configuration files in order to make it easier to apply all of them with a single command, called highstate:
https://docs.saltproject.io/salt/user-guide/en/latest/topics/states.html#the-top-sls-file
As far as I can tell, calling a file file_name.top is a convention used in Qubes OS for Salt configuration files whose purpose is to be “enabled” or “disabled” using the qubesctl command:
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