saltstack/salt — pull request #12737 by KennethWilke (2014-05-13 16:27:36+00:00)
Title: redis external pillar, more redis exec

With much excitement I have an initial working version of an external pillar module that uses redis. With the expectation that other redis users might find alternative solutions for packing data in redis I've structured this module to offer flexibility in selecting what algorithm to use and what pillar keys to return into.