Various salt states, mainly for convenience, and ease of setup in a Ubuntu-based development environment.

One quick and easy possible way to use these states, is by running salt masterless. For a full reference see saltstack docs:

• SALT MASTERLESS QUICKSTART
• STANDALONE MINION

Once you're setup with salt:

$ sudo mkdir /srv/ionics
$ sudo chown --recursive `whoami`:`whoami` /srv/ionics
$ git clone <your_fork> /srv/ionics

Edit pillar/common.sls:

$ vim /srv/ionics/pillar/common.sls

so that user and group are set to your username (i.e.: whomai).

Edit /etc/salt/minion, so that at a minimum, it contains:

file_client: local

file_roots:
  base:
    - /srv/ionics/salt

pillar_roots:
  base:
    - /srv/ionics/pillar

A minimalistic example minion file is provided in this repo.

To apply the states:

$ sudo salt-call --local -l debug state.highstate