Merge pull request #16993 from felskrone/expose_connected_minions

Expose connected minions through wheel-api

doc/ref/wheel/all/index.rst

@@ -15,3 +15,4 @@ Full list of builtin wheel modules
     file_roots
     key
     pillar_roots
+    minions

doc/ref/wheel/all/salt.wheel.minions.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+==================
+salt.wheel.minions
+==================
+
+.. automodule:: salt.wheel.minions
+    :members:
+

salt/wheel/minions.py

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+'''
+Wheel system wrapper for connected minions
+'''
+
+from salt.utils.cache import CacheCli
+import salt.config
+import salt.utils.minion
+
+
+def connected():
+    '''
+    List all connected minions on a salt-master
+    '''
+    opts = salt.config.master_config(__opts__['conf_file'])
+    minions = []
+
+    if opts.get('con_cache'):
+        cache_cli = CacheCli(opts)
+        minions = cache_cli.get_cached()
+    else:
+        minions = list(salt.utils.minions.CkMinions(opts).connected_ids())
+    return minions