We have learned about the different Salt components and capabilities that the software has, and how it can help us to achieve control of our infrastructure. But we haven't used any of the components to actually maintain any system or even install Salt. So, let's get our hands dirty with Salt and start making use of our newly acquired knowledge.
Before starting, we are going to set up a scenario to make more sense of what we will be doing in this chapter, and it will be related to a real-life scenario.