Salt configuration

Configuration

Master configuration: /etc/salt/master
Master configuration overrides: /etc/salt/master.d/myoverrides.conf
Minion configuration: /etc/salt/minion

Pillar

Pillar subsystem can be extended to fetch data from various sources, use ext-pillar to achieve this.

file_tree

ext pillar: file_tree File becomes the value of key
Under the root_dir you must have either hosts/minion_id folder or nodegroups/nodegroup folder
Data is available to matching hosts.
Example configuration:

ext_pillar:
  - file_tree:
      root_dir: /path/to/root/directory
      keep_newline:
        - files/testdir/*