Provisioning Vagrant with Salt

Let's get to the main part of this chapter: provisioning a Vagrant machine with Salt. We'll look at the masterless configuration setup for this section. We'll learn how to install the Nginx web server onto our Vagrant machine:

1. Create a new folder/directory for this example. I'm calling mine vagrant-salt.
2. Move into the new folder and run the vagrant init -m command to create a new Vagrantfile.
3. We need to create some folders and files for Salt. Create a roots folder and a minionfiles folder. Inside the roots folder, create a file called top.sls and enter these contents:

 base:
     '*':
         - base

Within the same folder (roots), create another file called base.sls and enter these contents:

 nginx:
     pkg.installed:
         - name: nginx

The top file dictates what hosts to target. We can use...