Can I dynamically include multiple sls files using a pattern or a glob

[BKeep]

Is there a way to include multiple state.sls files or pillar.sls files dynamically using regex or similar?

Currently in my pillars top file I have the standard for managing user secrets

base:
  '* not G@os:win*':
    - match: compound
    - users.users
    - users.remove

I want to try something different for managing my users but I don't know if I will be able to do it the way I am thinking. In sticking with the UNIX as the IDE philosophy, my thought is to name the files in a way that each is unique by having a separate file for each user instead of one large users.sls. This would allow using standard ls and grep to quickly see users sls files vs. using a huge users file.

An example naming convention would be like root-active.sls, bkeep-active.sls, tom-active.sls, susan-active.sls, barb-remove etc. This idea works fine, except going this route forces me to have 200 users.user-add includes in the pillars top file and mostly defeats the goal of not having a large file that is hard to skim names and whatnot.

Something like the below example is what I am after.

base:
  '* not G@os:win*':
    - match: compound
    - users.*-active
    - users.*-remove

Any ideas or comments are appreciated.

Regards,
Brandon

[BKeep]

This pretty much does what I wanted.

  '* not G@os:win*':
    - match: compound

{% for file in salt['file.readdir']('/srv/pillar/users') %}
{% if file not in ('.', '..') %}
{% set user = file.split('.sls')[0] %}
    - users.{{ user }}
{% endif %}
{% endfor %}

Regards,
Brandon

[Mike Freitas]

Hi Brandon,

You can also checkout Pillar Stack for even more flexibility in your pillar.

https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/pillar/all/salt.pillar.stack.html

Mike