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What is Salt's equivalent to Ansible's hostvars?

I was trying to install salt master and salt minions using salt-ssh.

In that I need to put the proper configurations on the remote machines. Both master and minions need the salt master's ip in the configuration file. I have done this in ansible using 

interface: {{  hostvars[groups['salt_master'][0]]['inventory_hostname'] }}

Is there a way to read the roster file? What is the salt way to do this?

Solution

  • Your best bet would be to assign pillar variables for this.

    cat /srv/pillar/top.sls:

    base:
  '*':
    - master_vars

    cat /srv/pillar/master_vars.sls:

    master_ip: 192.xxx.xxx.xxx

    Then in your config file you'd have something like this:

    interface: {{ pillar.get('master_ip') }}