pillar-apps-app1.sls

mysql:
  # Manage databases
  database:
    - foo
    - bar
  schema:
    foo:
      load: True
      source: salt://mysql/files/foo.schema
    bar:
      load: False

  # Manage users
  # you can get pillar for existent server using scripts/import_users.py script
  user:
    frank:
      password: 'somepass'
      host: localhost
      databases:
        - database: foo
          grants: ['select', 'insert', 'update']
        - database: bar
          grants: ['all privileges']
          
nginx:
  ng:
    vhosts:
      disabled_postfix: .disabled # a postfix appended to files when doing non-symlink disabling
      symlink_opts: {} # partially exposes file.symlink params when symlinking enabled sites
      rename_opts: {} # partially exposes file.rename params when not symlinking disabled/enabled sites
      managed_opts: {} # partially exposes file.managed params for managed vhost files
      dir_opts: {} # partially exposes file.directory params for site available/enabled dirs

      # vhost declarations
      # vhosts will default to being placed in vhost_available
      managed:
        mysite: # relative pathname of the vhost file
          # may be True, False, or None where True is enabled, False, disabled, and None indicates no action
          dir: /tmp # an alternate directory (not sites-available) where this vhost may be found
          disabled_name: mysite.aint_on # an alternative disabled name to be use when not symlinking
          enabled: True
          
          # May be a list of config options or None, if None, no vhost file will be managed/templated
          # Take server directives as lists of dictionaries. If the dictionary value is another list of
          # dictionaries a block {} will be started with the dictionary key name
          config:
            - server:
              - server_name: localhost
              - listen: 
                - 80
                - default_server
              - index:
                - index.html
                - index.htm
              - location ~ .htm:
                - try_files:
                  - $uri
                  - $uri/ =404
                - test: something else
                
app:
  install_path: /srv/app1
  whatever: True

pillar-top.sls

'base':
  'roles:mysql':
    - match: grain
    - apps.app1
  'roles:web':
    - match: grain
    - apps.app1

states-top.sls

'base':
  'roles:mysql':
    - match: grain
    - mysql
  'roles:web':
    - match: grain
    - app1
    - nginx