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Introduction to SaltStack¶

Pillar Metadata

SaltStack-Formulas uses Salt configuration platform to install and manage infrastructures. Salt is an automation platform that greatly simplifies system and application deployment. Salt uses service formulas to define resources written in the YAML language that orchestrate the individual parts of system into the working entity.

Pillar Metadata¶

Pillar is an interface for Salt designed to offer global values that are distributed to all minions. The ext_pillar option allows for any number of external pillar interfaces to be called to populate the pillar data.

Pillars are tree-like structures of data defined on the Salt Master and passed through to the minions. They allow confidential, targeted data to be securely sent only to the relevant minion. Pillar is therefore one of the most important systems when using Salt.