salt.renderers.yamlex

YAMLEX renderer is a replacement of the YAML renderer. It's 100% YAML with a pinch of Salt magic:

  • All mappings are automatically OrderedDict
  • All strings are automatically str obj
  • data aggregation with !aggregation yaml tag, based on the salt.utils.aggregation module.
  • data aggregation over documents for pillar

Instructed aggregation within the !aggregation and the !reset tags:

#!yamlex
foo: !aggregate first
foo: !aggregate second
bar: !aggregate {first: foo}
bar: !aggregate {second: bar}
baz: !aggregate 42
qux: !aggregate default
!reset qux: !aggregate my custom data

is roughly equivalent to

foo: [first, second]
bar: {first: foo, second: bar}
baz: [42]
qux: [my custom data]

Reference

salt.renderers.yamlex.render(sls_data, saltenv='base', sls='', **kws)

Accepts YAML_EX as a string or as a file object and runs it through the YAML_EX parser.

Return type:A Python data structure