# salt.runners.thin

The thin runner is used to manage the salt thin systems.

Salt Thin is a transport-less version of Salt that can be used to run routines in a standalone way. This runner has tools which generate the standalone salt system for easy consumption.

salt.runners.thin.generate(extra_mods='', overwrite=False, so_mods='', absonly=True, compress='gzip')

  Generate the salt-thin tarball and print the location of the tarball Optional additional mods to include (e.g. mako) can be supplied as a comma delimited string. Permits forcing an overwrite of the output file as well.

  CLI Example:

      salt-run thin.generate
      salt-run thin.generate mako
      salt-run thin.generate mako,wempy 1
      salt-run thin.generate overwrite=1

salt.runners.thin.generate_min(extra_mods='', overwrite=False, so_mods='')

  Generate the salt-thin tarball and print the location of the tarball Optional additional mods to include (e.g. mako) can be supplied as a comma delimited string. Permits forcing an overwrite of the output file as well.

  CLI Example:

      salt-run thin.generate_min