Copy a file from salt master to minions

Question

Using the Salt python client API, is there a way to copy files from the master to minion without using Salt File Server?

I don't want to use the cp module or source salt://.

Answer 1

You could create salt state to do this: Contents of /srv/salt/copyfiles.sls:

copy_my_files:
  file.recurse:
    - source: salt://DIR_TO_COPY
    - target: /home/DESTINATION_DIR
    - makedirs: True

Then run salt \* state.sls copyfiles

or

ret = local.cmd('*', 'state.sls', ['copyfiles', ])
print json.dumps(ret, indent=2)

Test the syntax of the local.cmd above. I haven't tried it on my system, but it should be similar to that.