[Bug 281933] [NEW PORT] sysutils/salt-tower: external pillar for SaltStack for pillar composition

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=281933

            Bug ID: 281933
           Summary: [NEW PORT] sysutils/salt-tower:  external pillar for
                    SaltStack for pillar composition
           Product: Ports & Packages
           Version: Latest
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Only Me
          Priority: ---
         Component: Individual Port(s)
          Assignee: ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: dereckson@gmail.com

Created attachment 254081
  --> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=254081&action=edit
Poudriere log

salt-tower is an external pillar module for SaltStack (sysutils/py-salt) to
allow to create layers of pillar.

It allows:
  - to reference a server name to pick a specific file (1)
  - to compose data from several files for easier maintenance (2)

This allows Salt pillar to behave more like Puppet hiera (or to allow what
Ansible provides with default values / group_vars / host_vars, but it's a lot
more organized in salt-tower and hiera).


[ Package notes ]

Straightforward Python installation through wheel / PEP-517.

I've been using it in production happily since March 2023.


[ Use case ]

Some examples of how salt-tower is used in real world for reference, as the
upstream documentation shows mainly theoretical cases:

  (1) https://github.com/nasqueron/operations/blob/main/pillar/tower.sls

  (2) the composition between the different files in
https://github.com/nasqueron/operations/tree/main/pillar/paas/docker/docker-002
where the dictionary `docker_containers` is split into several files.

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