NewsBotIRC Salt Formula

Salt formula to run NewsBotIRC on a Docker container

Requirements

• Salt
• Docker
• Docker client in Python
• Git client

Installation instructions

1. Copy the contents of this repo to /srv/salt
2. Move /srv/salt/pillar.example to /srv/pillar/newsbot.sls
3. Edit values in /srv/pillar/newsbot.sls
4. Add the pillar file to the top.sls file in /srv/pillar/top.sls. Example of /srv/pillar/top.sls:

    base:
        'your_target':
            - newsbot

5. Refresh the pillar with salt 'your_target' saltutil.pillar_refresh
6. Run the state with salt 'your_target' state.sls newsbot

Note: replace yourtarget with the minion ID where the bot will run.