Pillar storage and reactor setup

[Rémy Dernat]

Hi,

I have many pillars now. However, these pillars are stored in flat files.

For one project, I need a real dynamic pillar. This pillar could be modified after a minion fire an event.

So I need two things :

- to setup a reactor on my salt-master

- to change the type of storage of the desired pillar

The pillar is a standard yaml file. I think that mongodb would be the best choice for this storage even if I don't have any skill on mongo. Document storage would be suitable for this migration.

Perhaps, after a while, I would need to move a lot (or every) pillars to that database.

I think someone in this list already did that stuff. I did not find any tutorial/howto to do that common task.

What would you recommend ? How should I achieve/do that ?

Best regards,

Remy

[Rémy Dernat]

At least, I just created a little python script to import pillars into a mongodb:

https://gist.github.com/remyd1/d4b171966f854e465f71afa528faf275

I do not know if it works in any case. Need more tests...