The SLS Tree

SLS files can be arranged in a tree fo easy maintinence and development. This allows you to arrange your Idem code in a way that makes it easy to keep track of things, but also makes it easy to modify other SLS files, make code reuasable, and more!

When you run Idem and just give it a file to run, it assumes that your SLS tree is rooted in that file’s directory. This makes it easy to make multiple files that can be called together while just starting from an easy to find entry point.

Lets assume that you run idem state start.sls in a directory called idem/. Then you have defined that the directory called idem/ is the root of your SLS tree. Now all of the SLS references inside include directives are references relative to the idem/ directory.

SLS tree paths are resolved in one of two ways. An SLS reference of foo.bar will resolve to either foo/bar.sls or to foo/bar/init.sls. This allows for code to be easily organized into directories that contain groupings of code.