Including jinja from pillar from salt-stack
Solution 1:
Yes, you can use jinja in your pillar sls files.
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/pillar/
Solution 2:
Yes. Ensure that the file starts with the following on the first line.
#!jinja|yaml|gpg
This will ensure that all the pre-processors are executed, in this case jinja, yaml, and gpg decryption.