Adding salt documention to resolve #2315

website/docs/source/layouts/layout.erb

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 									<li<%= sidebar_current("provisioning-chefclient") %>><a href="/v2/provisioning/chef_client.html">Chef Client</a></li>
 									<li<%= sidebar_current("provisioning-puppetapply") %>><a href="/v2/provisioning/puppet_apply.html">Puppet Apply</a></li>
 									<li<%= sidebar_current("provisioning-puppetagent") %>><a href="/v2/provisioning/puppet_agent.html">Puppet Agent</a></li>
+									<li<%= sidebar_current("provisioning-salt") %>><a href="/v2/provisioning/salt.html">Salt</a></li>
 								</ul>
 								<% end %>
 

website/docs/source/v2/provisioning/salt.html.md

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+---
+page_title: "Salt - Provisioning"
+sidebar_current: "provisioning-salt"
+---
+# Salt Provisioner
+
+**Provisioner name: `salt`**
+
+The salt Provisioner allows you to provision the guest using 
+[Salt](http://saltstack.com/) states.
+
+Salt states are  [YAML](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAML) documents 
+that describes the current state a machine should be in, e.g. what
+packages should be installed, which services are running, and the
+contents of arbitrary files.
+
+## Masterless Quickstart
+
+What follows is a basic Vagrantfile that will get salt working
+on a single minion, without a master:
+
+
+```ruby
+  Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
+    ## Choose your base box
+    config.vm.box = "precise64"
+
+    ## For masterless, mount your salt file root
+    config.vm.synced_folder "salt/roots/", "/srv/salt/"
+
+    ## Use all the defaults:
+    config.vm.provision :salt do |salt|
+
+      salt.minion_config = "salt/minion"
+      salt.run_highstate = true
+
+    end
+  end
+```
+
+This sets up a shared folder for the salt root, and copies
+the minion file over, then runs `state.highstate` on the
+machine. Your minion file must contain the line
+`file_client: local`  in order to work in a 
+masterless setup.
+
+## Install Options
+
+
+* `install_master`  (boolean) - Should vagrant install the salt-master 
+on this machine
+
+* `no_minion`  (boolean) - Don't install the minion, default `false`
+
+* `install_syndic`   (boolean) - Install the salt-syndic, default 
+`false`
+
+* `install_type`  (stable | git | daily) - Whether to install from a 
+distribution's stable package manager, a daily ppa, or git treeish.
+
+* `install_args` (develop) - When performing a git install, 
+you can specify a branch, tag, or any treeish.
+
+* `always_install`   (boolean) - Installs salt binaries even
+ if they are already detected, default `false`
+
+
+## Minion Options
+These only make sense when `no_minion` is `false`.
+
+* `minion_config`    (string, default: "salt/minion") - Path to 
+a custom salt minion config file.
+
+* `minion_key`  (string) - Path to your minion key
+
+* `minion_pub`  (salt/key/minion.pub) - Path to your minion 
+public key
+
+
+## Master Options
+These only make sense when `install_master` is `true`.
+
+* `master_config` (string, default: "salt/minion")
+  Path to a custom salt master config file
+
+* `master_key` (salt/key/master.pem) - Path to your master key
+
+* `master_pub` (salt/key/master.pub) - Path to your master public key
+
+* `seed_master`  (dictionary) - Upload keys to master, thereby
+pre-seeding it before use. Example: `{minion_name:/path/to/key.pub}`
+
+## Execute States
+
+Either of the following may be used to actually execute states
+during provisioning.
+
+* `run_highstate` - (boolean) Executes `state.highstate` on 
+vagrant up. Can be applied to any machine.
+* `run_overstate` - (boolean) Executes `state.over` on 
+vagrant up. Can be applied to the master only.
+
+
+## Pillar Data
+
+You can export pillar data for use during provisioning by using the ``pillar``
+command. Each call will merge the data so you can safely call it multiple
+times. The data passed in should only be hashes and lists. Here is an example::
+
+```ruby
+      config.vm.provision :salt do |salt|
+
+        # Export hostnames for webserver config
+        salt.pillar({
+          "hostnames" => {
+            "www" => "www.example.com",
+            "intranet" => "intranet.example.com"
+          }
+        })
+
+        # Export database credentials
+        salt.pillar({
+          "database" => {
+            "user" => "jdoe",
+            "password" => "topsecret"
+          }
+        })
+
+        salt.run_highstate = true
+
+      end
+```
+
+## Preseeding Keys
+
+Preseeding keys is the recommended way to handle provisiong
+using a master.
+On a machine with salt installed, run 
+`salt-key --gen-keys=[minion_id]` to generate the necessary
+.pub and .pem files
+
+For a an example of a more advanced setup, look at the original
+[plugin](https://github.com/saltstack/salty-vagrant/tree/develop/example).
+
+
+
+
+