salt -I 'stuff:' is resolving to all minions

[Gord Austin]

I'm trying to do minion targeting using pillar, as documented at https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/targeting/pillar.html.

Instead, salt is running the state on all minions (I only have two here).

Any ideas why?

# salt -I 'mgd_nodes:trial' state.sls check_pillar                # That's -I as in --pillar

wpglxsaltt1:

----------

          ID: trace_1

    Function: cmd.run

        Name: echo "High level qualifier was found in pillar.  host $HOSTNAME"

      Result: True

     Comment: Command "echo "High level qualifier was found in pillar.  host $HOSTNAME"" run

     Started: 11:53:42.971631

    Duration: 8.976 ms

     Changes:   

              ----------

              pid:

                  19494

              retcode:

                  0

              stderr:

              stdout:

                  High level qualifier was found in pillar.  host wpglxsaltt1.some_corporation.com

Summary for wpglxsaltt1

------------

Succeeded: 1 (changed=1)

Failed:    0

------------

Total states run:     1

Total run time:   8.976 ms

wpgrhatt1:

----------

          ID: trace_1

    Function: cmd.run

        Name: echo "High level qualifier was found in pillar.  host $HOSTNAME"

      Result: True

     Comment: Command "echo "High level qualifier was found in pillar.  host $HOSTNAME"" run

     Started: 11:53:43.020582

    Duration: 9.61 ms

     Changes:   

              ----------

              pid:

                  12038

              retcode:

                  0

              stderr:

              stdout:

                  High level qualifier was found in pillar.  host wpgrhatt1.some_corporation.com

Summary for wpgrhatt1

------------

Succeeded: 1 (changed=1)

Failed:    0

------------

Total states run:     1

Total run time:   9.610 ms