unable to load external pillar

[Akilesh K]

Hi,

I need help working with external pillar. I have this in my master config file

ext_pillar:
  - cloud_pillar: pillar_definitions
extension_modules:  /csrv/salt/ext_modules

On my master
root@akilesh-lenovo:/csrv/salt/ext_modules/pillar# ls
cloud_pillar.py

And this is what salt documentation says about external pillars loading.

And yet my external module is not loaded. Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong/ What else has to be done?

[Wolodja Wentland]

On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 15:21 +0530, Akilesh K wrote:
> I need help working with external pillar. I have this in my master config file
>
> ext_pillar:
>   - cloud_pillar: pillar_definitions
> extension_modules:  /csrv/salt/ext_modules

This is not correct (even if you ignore the "csrv" vs. "srv" typo). You want to
set "extension_modules" to the name of a subdirectory under root_dir as "This
path is appended to root_dir." [0]

I typically just put external modules in _modules (just like _grains, ...)
in file_roots though

[0]
http://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/configuration/master.html#extension-modules
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[Akilesh K]

Hi,

As you said placing the file in _modules was sufficient. If I run saltutil.refresh_pillar I can see the code in my ext_pillar executing but after it is run if I run 'pillar.items' I do not see the contents that I expect. What could be the reason, Has anybody got an Idea?

[Akilesh K]

It looks as if my module is imported but the ext_pillar method is not called at all.

[Akilesh K]

Finally I realize that unlike execution modules ext pillar modules actually run on the master and not on the minion. Someone's got to mention it in the documentations.