There are a number of places where SDB modules can be used. Because SDB retrieval is built into the config.get
function in the config
execution module, the following locations can be used to set a value for a Minion:
Minion configuration file
Grains
Pillars
Master configuration file
SDB is also supported by Salt Cloud, so you can also set SDB URIs in:
The main cloud configuration file
Cloud profiles
Cloud providers
Cloud maps
Regardless of where you set an SDB URI, the format is the same:
<setting name>: sdb://<profile name>/<key>
This can be particularly useful with cloud providers, all of which require credentials, but many of which also use more complex configuration blocks that should be checked into revision control.
Take, for example, the openstack
Cloud provider:
my-openstack-config: identity_url: https://keystone.example.com:35357/v2.0/ compute_region: intermountain compute_name: Compute tenant: sdb://openstack_creds/tenant user: sdb://openstack_creds...