core pillars missing in 2014.7.0-830-g4085cfa

[smithjm]

Today I checked out 2014.7.0-830-g4085cfa from git, and noticed that all the "core" pillars (e.g. pillar['master']) have vanished.

They were present as of 2014.7.0-790-g40e8840, so sometime between those two revisions the behavior changed.

We are using the core pillars, plus pillars defined by pepa. We do not have any other custom pillars, or pillar.top file.

[thatch45]

We had quite a few requests to turn off the master object in the pillar because of security concerns. It is still on in the 2014.7 release but is off by default in the develop branch. This is just a toggled config value pillar_opts, it used to be True by default and now is False. So setting it to True in the master config will restore it.

[smithjm]

I'm closing this bug. The default setting for pillar_opts in /etc/salt/master is now false. Setting it to true restores the old behavior.

[thatch45]

Thank you for understanding, I am sorry I have not better publicized the change.

[UtahDave]

I've updated the default master config to reflect this change: #16718