You've reached the final chapter of the book, and our provisioning miniseries. In this chapter, we'll learn more about the Salt provisioner that can be used with Vagrant. At the end of this chapter, you will have a good understanding of how to use Salt to provision Vagrant and know more about Salt as a standalone piece of configuration-management software. We'll learn about Salt and how it works.

Specifically, we'll cover the following topics:

• Understanding Salt
• Salt states
• The syntax of Salt states
• Provisioning a Vagrant machine with Salt
• Vagrantfile options available when using Salt