Custom external pillar not loading.

[Mike Zupan]

I'm having issues getting a custom pillar to load. 

ext_pillar:

   - cmd_json: 'echo {\"arg\":\"value\"}'

   - etcd: http://127.0.0.1:4001/v2/keys/apps/

Then my dir looks like

[mike@ops /usr/share/pyshared/salt/pillar]$ ls /usr/share/pyshared/salt/pillar

cmd_json.py  cobbler.py     etcd.py        hiera.py     libvirt.py  pillar_ldap.py  reclass_adapter.py

cmd_yaml.py  django_orm.py  git_pillar.py  __init__.py  mongo.py    puppet.py       virtkey.py

So I have an etcd.py file in the same dir cmd_json is and that works

etcd.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

# Import python libs

import logging

import urllib

import json

# Import salt libs

import salt.utils

from salt._compat import string_types

# Set up logging

log = logging.getLogger(__name__)

def ext_pillar(minion_id, pillar, url):

    log.info("Querying etcd at %r for information for %r", url, minion_id)

    try:

        response = urllib.urlopen(url);

        data = json.loads(response.read())

        out = {'recurly': []}

        for node in data['node']['nodes']:

            out['recurly'].append(node['value'])

    except Exception:

        log.exception(

            'Could not connect to etcd.'

        )

        return {}

    return out

In my master I get the following

[INFO    ] Executing command 'echo {\\"arg\\":\\"value\\"}' in directory '/root'

[DEBUG   ] output: {"arg":"value"}

[CRITICAL] Specified ext_pillar interface etcd is unavailable

So cmd_json is loading but my etcd isn't I don't see much else in the debug output to say why

thanks!

[Colton Myers]

Did you restart your master after you put that file there?

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[Mike Zupan]

I figured out the error.. even though the ubuntu package puts the pillars in /usr/share/pyshared/salt/pillar it doesn’t include that as a search path. I used the right location and it worked

thanks

Mike Zupan

Senior Linux Engineer | Recurly

mi...@recurly.com

P 917-645-2315

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[Seth House]

If you specify the ``extension_modules`` setting in your master config
you can put a "pillar" folder in that folder and not have to put
things in your system path.