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How to read variable from a yaml file into a salt-states (sls) file (Salt-stack)?

I have an config.yaml file that defines some variables:

#config/product1/config.yaml
var_one: "url_1"
var_two: "url_2"

How can I read this file in a download.sls file so that I can download files to /local/downloaded_files/ using URL's stored in config.yaml?

I went through the salt-states document but it's very lacking on implementation examples with code.

Solution

  • This can be done using import_yaml in the following sort of fashion

    # File: download.sls
#
# import your yaml data ...
{% import_yaml "config/product1/config.yaml" as config %}

# now you can use it ...
{{ config.var_one }}

    Note that you can also use load_yaml if you would like to define your data using yaml inline within the state file itself

    {% load_yaml as config %}
var_one: "url_1"
var_two: "url_2"
{% endload %}

{{ config.var_one }}