Below is a list of repositories that show real world Salt applications that you can use to get started. Please note that these projects do not adhere to any standards and express a wide variety of ideas and opinions on how an action can be completed with Salt.
https://github.com/terminalmage/djangocon2013-sls
https://github.com/jesusaurus/hpcs-salt-state
Docs for previous releases are available on salt.rtfd.org.
Latest Salt release: 2014.1.13
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