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Salt can be installed via : salt-bootstrap: a shell script, that can install salt (client and/or master packages) on standard Unix/Linux platform, Platform Specific binaries: available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, Package Management systems: available for pacman, apt-get, yum and other pack...

Salt commands are executed using a common structure: salt '*' pkg.install vim [target] [module.function] [arguments] The target determines which systems apply the command. In the example above we target all ('*') the Salt minions. See the targeting minions documentation for more...

As of Salt version 2014.1.0, Salt uses a date based system for version numbers. Version numbers are in the format YYYY.MM.R. The year (YYYY) and month (MM) indicate when the release was created. The bugfix release number (R) increments within that feature release. In order to distinguish future rel...