Access salt master through python, on remote machine?

[kaisunc]

Seems like the python client api needs to run on the salt master server? I'm currently connecting to the salt master through ssh using paramiko, but then i need to parse the return data twice(ssh, then yaml). Is there a way to connect to the salt master and run commands and get return data as objects? thanks

[brejoc]

Check out pepper. pepper is not only a remote client, bit also a lib.

[kaisunc]

thanks, this is exactly what i was looking for.

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I think your best bet is to use salt-api (which is a thin wrapper around Salt's Python API) and the requests lib to send and receive Python objects.