How to get a list of all salt minions in a template?

Question

Basically I am creating a Salt state describing Munin server configuration and I need to get a list of all minions known to the master, something like this:

Answer 1

Why not use minion.list module?

In our pillar environment we have pillar that are private to each minion (/srv/pillar/hosts/[server_A, server_B, server_C...]/some_pillar.sls).

To make things easier (since some people keep forgetting to add new pillars to the top file) our pillar top file looks like this:

{{ saltenv }}:
  {% for minion in salt['minion.list']()['minions'] -%}
  {{ minion + '*' }}:
    - hosts.{{ minion.split('.')[0] }}
  {% endfor -%}

This way I can get a list of all minions known to the master every time the pillar enviorment is updated.