infrastructure management, configuration management, orchestration & remote execution

Here are some tricks, because the documentation is a bit …dense, structured strange and incomplete..

You can use a local repository to store states, but it must be a *bare* repository.

Salt refreshes the cache by default every 60 seconds!

# create bare repository:
mkdir -p /srv/repos/salt/states
git init --bare

# clone it somewhere and add your states:
git clone file:///srv/repos/salt/states
# ...
git add .
git commit
git push

Salt master configuration:

fileserver_backend:
  - git

gitfs_remotes:
  - file:///root/salt/states

• Starting point: https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/tutorials/walkthrough.html