salt.pillar.svn_pillar

Clone a remote SVN repository and use the filesystem as a Pillar source

This external Pillar source can be configured in the master config file like so:

ext_pillar:
  - svn: trunk svn://svnserver/repo root=subdirectory

The root= parameter is optional and used to set the subdirectory from where to look for Pillar files (such as top.sls).

Note that this is not the same thing as configuring pillar data using the pillar_roots parameter. The branch referenced in the ext_pillar entry above (master), would evaluate to the base environment, so this branch needs to contain a top.sls with a base section in it, like this:

base:
  '*':
    - foo

To use other environments from the same SVN repo as svn_pillar sources, just add additional lines, like so:

ext_pillar:
  - svn: trunk svn://svnserver/repo
  - svn: dev svn://svnserver/repo

In this case, the dev branch would need its own top.sls with a dev section in it, like this:

dev:
  '*':
    - bar

class salt.pillar.svn_pillar.SvnPillar(branch, repo_location, root, opts)

Deal with the remote SVN repository for Pillar

pillar_dir()

Returns the directory of the pillars (repo cache + branch + root)

update()

salt.pillar.svn_pillar.ext_pillar(minion_id, pillar, repo_string)

Execute a command and read the output as YAML