How to get current timestamp in Salt Pillars/States ?

[Vitaly Isaev]

Dear all, 

I'm looking for an opportunity to use current timestamp in my *.sls files. I didn't managed to find this function neither in SaltStack execution modules, nor in Jinja docs.

This will not compile:

{% set tstamp = datetime | strftime("%Y.%M.%d_%H:%M:%S") %}

I can use this workaround, but I'm sure that's not a Salt way:

{% set tstamp = salt["cmd.run"]("date +%Y.%M.%d_%H:%M:%S") %}

Any help will be appreciated.

[Seth House]

There's an example buried in Salt's Jinja renderer docs but it's a
little hard to dig out unless you've seen it already. :-P

https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/renderers/all/salt.renderers.jinja.html#filters

Note the linked 'timelib' dep if you want to do anything that Python's
stdlib can't do.

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[Matt]

Here's what's worked for me:

write_deployment_info:
  file.managed:
    - name: {{ application_directory }}/.deployment_info.yaml
    - contents: |
        datetime_stamp: {{ None|strftime("%A %B %d %Y %H:%M") }}

[Maxime Diawara]

Hello,

Another solution could be to use the Saltstack module : 

salt.modules.system

{% set mydate = salt["system.get_system_date"]() %}
{% set mytime = salt["system.get_system_time"]() %}
{% set mydatetime = salt["system.get_system_date_time"]() %}

test_system_date:
  cmd.run:
    - name: 'echo {{ mydate }}'

test_system_time:
  cmd.run:
    - name: 'echo {{ mytime }}'

test_system_date_time:
  cmd.run:
    - name: 'echo {{ mydatetime }}'