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Below is the same Academy that lives on the Saltify home page — pulled out into its own page so you can share the link with a teammate.

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Saltify Academy

Learn Salt the Saltify way.

Eight free guides. Zero sign-ups. From your first salt-call to the AI-augmented dev workflow — all in plain English. The course we wish we had.

8 Free guides
360 State modules mapped
30min To confident
0 Sign-ups
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The five-course path. Beginner → production.

  1. SALT 101 Install Guide Build VCF Salt the right way. 3 servers, 11 steps, blue/green ready. ~20 min read
  2. SALT 102 Getting Started Your first state files. Pillar. GPG. Push to Git. Hello-world to source-of-truth. ~15 min
  3. SALT 201 Salt States Six modules cover 90%. Requisites, top file, real production patterns. ~10 min
  4. SALT 301 Salt on Windows Production patterns, not theory. The 6 quirks. winrepo. Fleet-wide. ~12 min
  5. SALT 401 Salt + AI Use Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor with Salt. Pillar-aware prompts that actually work. ~10 min
Advanced

Tooling track — for the AI-augmented workflow.

  1. SALT 501 AI Tooling VSCode, SaltStack ext, Copilot Chat, Claude in Chrome, Claude Code (IDE + terminal). Install commands lifted from official docs. ~25 min
Always handy

Two reference companions.

SALT REF · 01

Salt Cheat Sheet

The 50 commands you'll actually use, on one scrollable page. No spec sheet, no docstrings.

Open the cheat sheet → SALT REF · 02

State Modules Index

Every state module — 360 of them — grouped by what they do, with usage examples.

Browse all 360 →

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The Academy is the free version. If you'd rather have us build it for you — Canberra-based, Australian Government track record — Saltify takes contracts.

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