Using salt-mine in pillar data

[Kai H]

Hi,

I tried using salt mine in pillar data and could not get it working. Is there any architectural reason why it should not work?

pillar/nagios/init.sls

---

nagios:

  nrpe:

    something_else: True

    allowed_hosts:

      {%- for minion, addresses in salt['mine.get']('G@roles:nagios_server', 'ipv4_addresses', 'compound').items() %}

      - {{addresses[0]}}

      {%- endfor %}

---

After saltutil.refresh_pillar, mine.update and a local salt-call as well as usual salt cli for "pillar.get nagios", I will always get:

nagios:

  nrpe:

    something_else: True

    allowed_hosts: None

When running salt-call mine.get 'G@roles:nagios_server' 'ipv4_addresses'  'compound', I get the expected results akin to:

local:

    ----------

    minion-name-1:

        - 10.111.8.196

        - 127.0.0.1

        - 172.17.42.1

        - 192.168.122.1

    minion-name-2:

        - 10.111.8.181

        - 127.0.0.1

For completeness:

pillar/saltmine/init.sls

---

mine_functions:

  ipv4_addresses:

    mine_function: grains.get

    key: ipv4

---

Versions Report:

Salt Version:

           Salt: 2015.8.1

Dependency Versions:

         Jinja2: 2.7.2

       M2Crypto: 0.21.1

           Mako: 0.9.1

         PyYAML: 3.10

          PyZMQ: 14.0.1

         Python: 2.7.6 (default, Jun 22 2015, 17:58:13)

           RAET: Not Installed

        Tornado: 4.3

            ZMQ: 4.0.4

           cffi: 0.8.2

       cherrypy: Not Installed

       dateutil: Not Installed

          gitdb: 0.5.4

      gitpython: 0.3.2 RC1

          ioflo: Not Installed

        libnacl: Not Installed

   msgpack-pure: Not Installed

 msgpack-python: 0.3.0

   mysql-python: Not Installed

      pycparser: 2.10

       pycrypto: 2.6.1

         pygit2: 0.23.0

   python-gnupg: Not Installed

          smmap: 0.8.2

        timelib: Not Installed

System Versions:

           dist: Ubuntu 14.04 trusty

        machine: x86_64

        release: 3.13.0-53-generic

         system: Ubuntu 14.04 trusty

[Seth House]

You can access Mine data from Pillar. There was a recent documentation
change explaining how but it looks like the development docs for the
mine module are currently broken so I'll link to the pull req instead:

https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/27096/files

tl;dr: Pillar is generated on the Master so you need to call the Mine
Runner instead of the Mine Execution module. Syntax looks like this:

{% set minion_ips = salt.saltutil.runner('mine.get',
tgt='*',
fun='network.ip_addrs',
tgt_type='glob') %}