salt.pillar.http_yaml¶

A module that adds data to the Pillar structure retrieved by an http request

Configuring the HTTP_YAML ext_pillar¶

Set the following Salt config to setup an http endpoint as the external pillar source:

ext_pillar:
  - http_yaml:
      url: http://example.com/api/minion_id
      username: username
      password: password
      header_dict: None
      auth: None

You can pass additional parameters, they will be added to the http.query call utils.http.query function:

If the with_grains parameter is set, grain keys wrapped in can be provided (wrapped in <> brackets) in the url in order to populate pillar data based on the grain value.

ext_pillar:
  - http_yaml:
      url: http://example.com/api/<nodename>
      with_grains: True

Changed in version 2018.3.0: If %s is present in the url, it will be automatically replaced by the minion_id:

ext_pillar:
  - http_json:
      url: http://example.com/api/%s

Module Documentation¶

salt.pillar.http_yaml.ext_pillar(minion_id, pillar, url, with_grains=False, header_dict=None, auth=None, username=None, password=None)¶

Read pillar data from HTTP response.

Parameters:

url (str) -- Url to request.
with_grains (bool) -- Whether to substitute strings in the url with their grain values.
header_dict (dict) -- Extra headers to send
username (str) -- username for auth
pasword (str) -- password for auth
auth -- special auth if needed

Returns:

A dictionary of the pillar data to add.

Return type:

dict