for loop in pillar state file

[Arun Rajendran]

I am using the following for loop in the pillar state file and it's does not return any output with 'salt '*' pillar.items apple' command and it is working fine without for loop with hardcode value. Is there any bug in using for loop in pillar state file? Also it is possible to import OS python module in pillar state file?

# pillar file for application

(% for appns in 'apple1','apple2' %}

include:

  - appconf.{{ appns }}

{% endfor %}

[Florian Ermisch]

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Hi Arun,

Check `salt '*' pillar.items _errors` because you will have salt complain about two 'include'-statements in there.

Just put the include above the loop and this part of your problem will be fixed.

Regards, Florian

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[Arun Rajendran]

Thanks Florian..its working fine now

Is it possible to import OS python module in pillar state file?

[Arun Rajendran]

I want to iterate through all the sls files in /srv/pillar/appconf and need to include it in top.sls file. To do this I guess I need to import python module...Is there any other way for this?

[Paul Reinking]

I'm running into an issue with one of the nodes managed by salt and a
complete reinstall of the minion does not seem to help.
Does anyone has an idea of how I could further trouble shoot this issue?

[ERROR ] An un-handled exception was caught by salt's global exception
handler:
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position
4566: ordinal not in range(128)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/salt", line 10, in <module>
salt_main()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/salt/scripts.py", line 135, in
salt_main
client.run()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/salt/cli/__init__.py", line
140, in run
self._output_ret(ret, out)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/salt/cli/__init__.py", line
155, in _output_ret
salt.output.display_output(ret, out, self.config)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/salt/output/__init__.py", line
35, in display_output
display_data = get_printout(out, opts)(data).rstrip()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/salt/output/highstate.py",
line 44, in output
return _format_host(host, hostdata)[0]
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/salt/output/highstate.py",
line 200, in _format_host
return '\n'.join(hstrs), changed

Thanks

[Elias Probst]

On 10/31/2014 02:59 PM, Paul Reinking wrote:
>
> I'm running into an issue with one of the nodes managed by salt and a
> complete reinstall of the minion does not seem to help.
> Does anyone has an idea of how I could further trouble shoot this issue?

Please don't hijack existing threads for new questions!
This mail was posted as response to the "for loop in pillar state file"
thread.

Thanks!

[Colton Myers]

Hey Arun,

Sorry for the late reply, I'm catching up on old threads.

If you want the full power of python in your pillar generation, I would recommend you write an external pillar module:

http://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/development/external_pillars.html

Hope that helps!

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Platform Engineer, SaltStack

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[Colton Myers]

Paul,

Gah, I hate those stupid unicode errors! They can be a beast to track down, because they're often caused by the environment, rather than salt directly.

I would recommend filing an issue on Github so we can track it.

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