The manager's /etc/salt/minion (written by so-functions:configure_minion)
has no file_roots, so salt-call --local falls back to Salt's default
/srv/salt and fails with "No matching sls found for 'postgres.telegraf_users'
in env 'base'". || true was silently swallowing the error, which meant the
DB roles for the pillar entries just populated by the so-telegraf-cred
backfill loop never actually got created.
Route through salt-master instead; its file_roots already points at the
default/local salt trees.