Targeting minions based on pillar data

[Kevin Dodge]

On this page https://salt.readthedocs.org/en/latest/topics/pillar/index.html it mentions that you can target minons by referencing pillar data by using  salt -I 'key:value' test.ping.     I am trying to do this and cant seem to get it to work the way I expect it to.

For example, I have this pillar data set.   

{% if grains['host'] == 'QA' or grains['host'] == 'QA2' %}

webapps:

   - helloworld

   - GoBub

{% endif %}

How would I target a minion based on this pillar data?

  

Assuming that the targeting above is possible, is it possible to do matching in my top.sls based on pillar data?   If so how do I do that.

[Thomas S Hatch]

If I am not mistaken:

salt -I 'webapps:helloworld' should match since it will check for indices in a list, let me know it this works, I may need to look at the code to see if there are any potential probelms

[Kevin Dodge]

I was able to solve part of my problems after I found this link http://docs.saltstack.org/en/latest/ref/states/top.html

This link made it so I could setup my top.sls to look for a pillar for matching.   I was not able to check for nested values though, only single values.   So for the solution I did this.

{% if grains['host'] == 'QA' or grains['host'] == 'QA2' %}

webapps-on: True

webapps:

   - helloworld

   - GoBub

{% endif %}

Then in my top.sls I was able to match this

  'webapps-on:True':

    - match: pillar

Note, I was not able to do this

  'webapps:helloworld':

    - match: pillar

Unfortunately I have not gotten the command line selector working, even with a single level property.

salt -I 'webapps-on:True' test.ping    -- this does not work for me. 

[Alec Koumjian]

It is because the literal value is not "helloworld" but is a list of values ['helloworld','GoBub'] ?

[Kevin Dodge]

I was worried that it would require me to list the literal value.   I guess I was hoping it would use is defined if it was a list or dict object.

Still, I still don't understand why I cant target minions from the command line using pillars.  Has anyone else tried to make sure it is working?

[Thomas S Hatch]

https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/2761

I will verify