Manage PiHole with Salt.
This formula also provides a custom execution and state module to manage PiHole beyond the setup.
Mind that automatic testing is currently not implemented, even if suggested otherwise from forking the official template formula.
Table of Contents
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If you want to use this formula, please pay attention to the FORMULA
file and/or git tag
,
which contains the currently released version. This formula is versioned according to Semantic Versioning.
See Formula Versioning Section for more details.
If you need (non-default) configuration, please refer to:
- how to configure the formula with map.jinja
- the
pillar.example
file - the Special notes section
An example pillar is provided, please see pillar.example. Note that you do not need to specify everything by pillar. Often, it's much easier and less resource-heavy to use the parameters/<grain>/<value>.yaml
files for non-sensitive settings. The underlying logic is explained in map.jinja.
The following states are found in this formula:
pihole
pihole.package
pihole.config
pihole.cert
pihole.adlist
pihole.blacklist
pihole.custom_cname
pihole.custom_dns
pihole.group
pihole.whitelist
pihole.service
pihole.tls
pihole.clean
pihole.package.clean
pihole.config.clean
pihole.cert.clean
pihole.adlist.clean
pihole.blacklist.clean
pihole.custom_cname.clean
pihole.custom_dns.clean
pihole.group.clean
pihole.whitelist.clean
pihole.service.clean
pihole.tls.clean
Meta-state.
This installs the pihole package, manages the pihole configuration file, adlists, blacklists, custom CNAME and DNS config, groups, whitelists, then starts the pihole-FTL service. Also manages the lighttpd server regarding TLS configuration.
Installs PiHole only and syncs the custom modules found in this formula.
- Warning:
- This pipes the output fetching the installation script from the URL in
pihole.lookup.setup_sh
into a root shell because the setup is sadly rather the antithesis of straightforward to reproduce with Salt. It's possible to provide a local replacement for the script by overridingpihole.lookup.setup_sh
e.g. to a salt:// URI.
Manages the PiHole, pihole-FTL and custom dnsmasq configurations. Has a dependency on pihole.package.
Generates a TLS certificate + key for PiHole. Depends on pihole.package.
Manages PiHole adlists and updates the gravity database. Has a dependency on pihole.service.
Manages PiHole blacklist entries. Has a dependency on pihole.service.
Manages PiHole custom CNAME entries. Has a dependency on pihole.service.
Manages PiHole local DNS A/AAAA entries. Has a dependency on pihole.service.
Manages PiHole groups. Has a dependency on pihole.service.
Manages PiHole whitelist entries. Has a dependency on pihole.service.
Starts the pihole-FTL service and enables it at boot time. Has a dependency on pihole.config.
Configure and enable TLS for PiHole (lighttpd). Has a dependency on pihole.package.
Meta-state.
Undoes some operations performed in the pihole
meta-state
in reverse order, i.e.
removes TLS configuration from lighttpd,
stops the service,
removes the configuration.
The package cannot be uninstalled automatically.
This state will fail. PiHole currently cannot be removed without user interaction. Has a dependency on pihole.config.clean.
Removes the PiHole, pihole-FTL and custom dnsmasq configurations and has a dependency on pihole.service.clean.
Removes generated PiHole TLS certificate + key. Depends on pihole.service.clean.
Removes managed PiHole adlists. This does not restart PiHole on its own. To apply, you will need to restart manually.
Removes managed PiHole blacklist entries. This does not restart PiHole on its own. To apply, you will need to restart manually.
Removes managed PiHole custom CNAME entries. This does not restart PiHole on its own. To apply, you will need to restart manually.
Removes managed PiHole local DNS A/AAAA entries. This does not restart PiHole on its own. To apply, you will need to restart manually.
Removes managed PiHole groups. This does not restart PiHole on its own. To apply, you will need to restart manually.
Removes managed PiHole whitelist entries. This does not restart PiHole on its own. To apply, you will need to restart manually.
Stops the pihole-FTL service and disables it at boot time.
Removes TLS configuration from lighttpd.
Commit message formatting is significant!
Please see How to contribute for more details.
pre-commit is configured for this formula, which you may optionally use to ease the steps involved in submitting your changes.
First install the pre-commit
package manager using the appropriate method, then run bin/install-hooks
and
now pre-commit
will run automatically on each git commit
.
$ bin/install-hooks pre-commit installed at .git/hooks/pre-commit pre-commit installed at .git/hooks/commit-msg
There is a script that semi-autodocuments available states: bin/slsdoc
.
If a .sls
file begins with a Jinja comment, it will dump that into the docs. It can be configured differently depending on the formula. See the script source code for details currently.
This means if you feel a state should be documented, make sure to write a comment explaining it.
Linux testing is done with kitchen-salt
.
- Ruby
- Docker
$ gem install bundler
$ bundle install
$ bin/kitchen test [platform]
Where [platform]
is the platform name defined in kitchen.yml
,
e.g. debian-9-2019-2-py3
.
Creates the docker instance and runs the pihole
main state, ready for testing.
Runs the inspec
tests on the actual instance.
Removes the docker instance.
Runs all of the stages above in one go: i.e. destroy
+ converge
+ verify
+ destroy
.
Gives you SSH access to the instance for manual testing.
- Automatically import meta-lists and whitelists