salt.modules.pillar¶

Extract the pillar data for this minion

salt.modules.pillar.ext(external, pillar=None)¶

Generate the pillar and apply an explicit external pillar

CLI Example:

pillar : None

If specified, allows for a dictionary of pillar data to be made available to pillar and ext_pillar rendering. These pillar variables will also override any variables of the same name in pillar or ext_pillar.

New in version 2015.5.0.

salt '*' pillar.ext '{libvirt: _}'

salt.modules.pillar.get(key, default=<type 'exceptions.KeyError'>, merge=False, delimiter=':')¶

New in version 0.14.

Attempt to retrieve the named value from pillar, if the named value is not available return the passed default. The default return is an empty string except __opts__['PILLAR_RAISE_ON_MISSING'] is set to True, in which case a KeyError will be raised.

If the merge parameter is set to True, the default will be recursively merged into the returned pillar data.

The value can also represent a value in a nested dict using a ":" delimiter for the dict. This means that if a dict in pillar looks like this:

{'pkg': {'apache': 'httpd'}}

To retrieve the value associated with the apache key in the pkg dict this key can be passed:

pkg:apache

merge

Specify whether or not the retrieved values should be recursively merged into the passed default.

New in version 2014.7.0.

delimiter

Specify an alternate delimiter to use when traversing a nested dict

New in version 2014.7.0.

CLI Example:

salt '*' pillar.get pkg:apache

salt.modules.pillar.item(*args, **kwargs)¶

New in version 0.16.2.

Return one or more pillar entries

pillar : none

if specified, allows for a dictionary of pillar data to be made available to pillar and ext_pillar rendering. these pillar variables will also override any variables of the same name in pillar or ext_pillar.

New in version 2015.5.0.

CLI Examples:

salt '*' pillar.item foo
salt '*' pillar.item foo bar baz

salt.modules.pillar.items(*args, **kwargs)¶

Calls the master for a fresh pillar and generates the pillar data on the fly

Contrast with raw() which returns the pillar data that is currently loaded into the minion.

pillar : none

if specified, allows for a dictionary of pillar data to be made available to pillar and ext_pillar rendering. these pillar variables will also override any variables of the same name in pillar or ext_pillar.

New in version 2015.5.0.

CLI Example:

salt '*' pillar.items

salt.modules.pillar.raw(key=None)¶

Return the raw pillar data that is currently loaded into the minion.

Contrast with items() which calls the master to fetch the most up-to-date Pillar.

CLI Example:

salt '*' pillar.raw

With the optional key argument, you can select a subtree of the pillar raw data.:

salt '*' pillar.raw key='roles'