pillar.get from within a pillar

[Will Platnick]

Are we supposed to be able to query other assigned pillar data with pillar.get from within a pillar?

{% if salt['pillar.get']('DIVISION', 'div1') == 'div2' %} is evaluating to div1, even though the DIVISION is assigned by a different pillar and is a valid working pillar on the minion?

[Ethan Erchinger]

From what I understand, no, you cannot.  A possible options though is to set a Jinja variable if that pillar data isn't needed elsewhere, and use a Jinja include which can then see the Jinja variable.

Another option, though it requires multiple invocations, is to set a grain based on a pillar variable, and then in the next run reference the grain detail, using salt('config.get'), which will look at the minion's grains first and that variable would be set based on pillar data.  It's not as dynamic, nor is it as secure, but it does work.

Ethan

[David Boucha]

Another option here is to create your own external pillar.

The external pillar function receives a python dict containing the regular pillar, then you can do whatever magic you want updating and modifying that dict that you then return as the final pillar.

You can actually have multiple external pillars that get executed in the order they're defined in the master config.

Here's a pretty good doc on writing an external pillar

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

Be sure to read the section at the very bottom regarding the available global vars.

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