If you want to restart a service using salt.states.service.running and you can’t use watch because there is simply nothing to watch for changes, then use the following code:
restart_phpfpm_service:
# Force service.running to always restart the service.
test.succeed_with_changes:
- watch_in:
- service: restart_phpfpm_service
service.running:
- name: php7.0-fpm
- enable: True