Allow pillar to point to a file inside pillar roots.

[UtahDave]

Allow pillar to point to a file inside pillar roots. The contents of that file then become the value of that pillar key.

Example use case: deploy ssh keys

[UtahDave]

Duplicate of: #1543

[basepi]

Actually, #1543 is quite a bit different from what I can tell.

[jaloren]

+1

[arnisoph]

+1

[wwentland]

It shouldn't be too hard to implement this in pure Python. You would simply read the file and then return a dictionary with the data. Something along the lines of:

#!py

def run():
    return {'foo_key': open("/path/to/file").read()}

You would naturally want to write better Python code there, but that is the general idea. I'd still like to see the functionality proposed in this wishlist bug though.

[mkorkalo]

+1

[porunov]

+1

[The-Loeki]

The way we do it:

web:
  ssl:
{%- import_text 'my/awesome/cert/cert.pem' as ssl_cert %}
    cert: |
      {{ ssl_cert|indent(6) }}

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