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When I do highstate at minion, there is a strange error. I suspect, that the pillar data on the minion may not be right. Can I somehow dump the pillar data from minion?

Tomáš Fejfar
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As you said in your answer to your own question,

salt '*' pillar.data

will show all the data. However, you have some additional useful commands:

salt '*' pillar.raw

will show the raw data as it's loaded into the __pillar__ dict.

salt '*' pillar.get <key>

will show you the value of some key in pillar, with the ability to default to a certain value if the key doesn't exist. (The default is super useful when you're using pillar when templating states)

Colton Myers
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  • data & raw commands give me same output. What would make them different? – Tomáš Fejfar Jun 12 '13 at 08:23
  • `pillar.raw` will return the actual data on the minion at this moment, while `pillar.data` will do a limited pillar refresh and check what pillar data looks like on the master, without actually refreshing the minions' data. Note that running a highstate will refresh the pillar. Thus, if you've changed pillar on the master and have no refreshed (explicitly or via a highstate), the output will be different. – Colton Myers Jun 19 '13 at 16:24
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    From Salt 0.16.2, you should use `pillar.items` *(`pillar.data` is deprecated)*. Reference: https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/pillar/#viewing-minion-pillar – manikanta Apr 12 '16 at 18:10
  • // , For a master-less setup, how would one view this with something like `salt-call`? – Nathan Basanese Aug 25 '16 at 08:13
  • `pillar.data` and `pillar.get` work with `salt-call` as well. – Colton Myers Aug 26 '16 at 15:46
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To see the pillar data 

salt '*' pillar.data

It's good idea to refresh the pillar data first using 

salt '*' saltutil.refresh_pillar
Tomáš Fejfar
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Also using :

salt '*' pillar.items

Will show you all pillars node by node

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