Salt curriculum I wish I'd had when I started
Started using Salt few years back and the official docs always frustrated me. They are good as reference once you know what you need, but tough as a learning path. Alphabetical, dense, you have to know
which module you need before you can search anything.
So I made Saltify Academy. 8 free articles, structured like a course.
5 courses in order:
- Install Guide
- Getting Started (your first state files)
- Salt States (modules + requisites)
- Salt on Windows
- Salt + AI
1 advanced track: AI tooling for Salt dev (VSCode + Copilot + Claude Code). Install commands taken straight from official docs, sources cited inline.
2 references: a Cheat Sheet, and a State Modules Index that groups all 360 state modules by what they do.
Not replacing official docs, just an easier starting point if you are new to Salt.
https://saltify.work/salt-academy.html
The State Modules Index might be useful even for experienced people: https://saltify.work/salt-state-modules.html
Feedback welcome, happy to fix anything missing or wrong.
— Dusan