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What we can currently detect

• Duplicate match expressions
  • If merged, duplicate expressions will break state and pillar top file rendering
  • This has bitten us before, and is hard to detect with the files being so large
• Invalid/misspelled match types
  • e.g. - match: prce instead of pcre
  • Will break state and pillar top file rendering, even if the match expression under which it is found does not apply to your box
• This is because each expression must be evaluated to see if it applies to a given minion

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Moved to https://github.com/terminalmage/salt-docker

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Salt Debugging Best Practices

These notes should prove useful for those looking for tips on how to find and fix bugs, as well as those who are developing Salt and would like to improve/streamline the process.

NOTE: These notes are written from the perspective of a developer working in a Linux environment. Those on MacOS may need to make some adjustments. Those on Windows may need to make several adjustments.