Configuring the HTTP_JSON ext_pillar

Set the following Salt config to setup http json result as external pillar source:

ext_pillar:
  - http_json:
      url: http://example.com/api/minion_id
      ::TODO::
      username: username
      password: password

If the with_grains parameter is set, grain keys wrapped in can be provided (wrapped in <> brackets) in the url in order to populate pillar data based on the grain value.

ext_pillar:
  - http_json:
      url: http://example.com/api/<nodename>
      with_grains: True

ext_pillar:
  - http_json:
      url: http://example.com/api/%s

Module Documentation

salt.pillar.http_json.ext_pillar(minion_id, pillar, url, with_grains=False)

Read pillar data from HTTP response.

Parameters:	url (str) -- Url to request. with_grains (bool) -- Whether to substitute strings in the url with their grain values.
Returns:	A dictionary of the pillar data to add.
Return type:	dict