An issue that keeps coming up on the mailing lists as well as Stackoverflow[1,2] is how to merge multiple pillar files for use with a single state. The problem is that pillars using the same key overwrite each other, and there is no easy way to express the desire to merge instead. There are various workarounds, but all … SaltStack: Combine multiple pillar files under a single key
SaltStack has the ability to create custom states, grains, and external pillars. There is a long list of standard external pillars ranging from those which read from local JSON files, to those that pull from EC2, MongoDB, etcd, and MySQL. In this article, we will use Apache ZooKeeper as the storage facility for our SaltStack … SaltStack: Creating a ZooKeeper External Pillar using Python
When automating software and infrastructure, it is not uncommon to need to supply a user id and password for installation or other operations. While it is certainly possible to pass these plaintext credentials directly in the state, this is not best practice. # not best practice!!! testdb_user: mysql_user.present: – name: frank – password: “test3rdb” – … SaltStack: Keeping Salt Pillar data encrypted using GPG