[FEATURE REQUEST] rhel8 dnf module ....

[w3bservice]

i am currently creating an sls and desperately searching how to map "dnf module list...." or "dnf module enable/disable ..." in salt. the enable/disable feature is in CentOS/Alma Linux/Rocky Linux and Oracle respectively since rhel 8. with cmd.run it works. is there another more elegant way besides using a native command?

current salt-version 3004.1 Rocky Linux 8.6

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[mattboston]

I need to solve the same issue. Currently I'm doing this, but would be nice to have a salty method.

httpd-enable-module-mod_auth_openidc:
  cmd.run:
    - name: /bin/dnf module enable mod_auth_openidc

[RobinWlund]

Also curius about this feature for saltstack yumpkg module and state module.

[DaAwesomeP]

Has anyone found a clean way to check if a module is already enabled? Something that could be used with onlyif or unless? A not great solution requires some grep regex magic from dnf module list --enabled -q.

[sampipe]

This is what I do to get the latest available nginx installed being that the default module in RHEL8 is old.... shows the unless/onlyif.

disable_php_module:
  cmd.run:
    - name: dnf module disable php
    - onlyif: dnf module list --enabled | grep php

enable_nginx_1_20_module:
  cmd.run:
    - name: dnf module enable nginx:1.20
    - unless: dnf module list --enabled | grep nginx | grep 1.20

required_packages:
  pkg.installed:
    - pkgs:
      - nginx

[dennixxNL]

Great solution, although I agree this should be a Salt-native solution. I'd like to suggest a small change in your onlyif and unless statements, which eliminates the use of pipes and grep:

disable_php_module:
  cmd.run:
    - name: dnf module -y disable php
    - onlyif: dnf module list --enabled php

enable_nginx_1_20_module:
  cmd.run:
    - name: dnf module -y enable nginx:1.20
    - unless: dnf module list --enabled nginx:1.20

required_packages:
  pkg.installed:
    - pkgs:
      - nginx