Apply a salt state to the current machine using the internal api

test_salt.py

import salt.config
 
opts = salt.config.minion_config('/tmp/foo') # Doesnt need to be present
opts['file_client'] = 'local' # I dont know if this is right. Not 'remote'
opts['cachedir'] = '/tmp/salt' # Needs to be writeable
 
d = {
    '/tmp/bacon': {
        'file': [
            'directory',
            {'mode': 777},
        ]
    }
}
 
m = salt.minion.SMinion(opts)
print m.functions['state.high'](d)

# Outputs:
#{'file_|-/tmp/bacon_|-/tmp/bacon_|-directory': {'comment': 'Directory /tmp/bacon updated', '__run_num__': 0, 'changes': {'/tmp/bacon': 'New Dir', 'mode': '777'}, 'name': '/tmp/bacon', 'result': True}}