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Jinja and Advanced States

Use Jinja2 templating for dynamic configuration, conditional logic, loops, and state requisites to build production-grade automation.

Labs in this module

• Jinja Templating - Create Jinja2 templates for configuration files and deploy them with file.managed.
• Jinja Conditionals and Loops - Use if/else and for loops in Jinja to create dynamic states that adapt to each minion.
• Requisites - Control state ordering with require, watch, and onchanges requisites.
• State Environments - Configure Salt environments (base, dev, prod) and assign minions to different environments.