def load_ha_config_info(self, file_path=None):
        try:
            if not file_path:
                file_path=self.AWS_HA_CONFIG_FILE
            mydict = yaml.load(open(file_path, "r").read())
        except Exception, e:
            # log the exception, but return None
            raise
        return mydict
This provides access to info such as region, queue_name for connecting to sqs and ec2
dataset/ETHPy150Open wcannon/saltconf2015/phoenix/infrastructure/s3/minion/scripts/helper.py/Helper.load_ha_config_info