saltstack/salt — pull request #3269 by kjkuan (2013-01-15 04:56:07+00:00)
Title: A Python DSL(module and renderer) for generating Salt's highstate data structure.

not that it's better or more powerful than using yaml+jinja; but at day job I have to use Chef, and I guess it got into me... and I just want to see if it's possible to do something similar in Salt.

I think this renderer proves again that Salt's idea of using a common data structure that can be transformed and also rendered from other forms of input data is a very powerful one.

It still needs more docs and there's more to be done to make it more feature-complete and user-friendly, but I'd just like to toss it out to get some feedback and see people's reactions.